The Digital Finance Institute, Canadian FinTech think tank, presented the 2nd Annual FinTech Awards on November 21, 2016 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto to celebrate Canadian innovation and thought leadership in FinTech. The Awards honour and recognize FinTechs, innovators, leaders and professional advisors behind Canada’s most successful and up-and-coming FinTech companies and financial institutions.
2016 Awards Chair & Organizing Committee
Expert Advisory Panel Christine Duhaime
Executive Director & Founder Digital Finance Institute, Partner, Duhaime Law
Sue Britton
2016 Awards Chair, Advisor Digital, Finance Institute, CEO & Founder FinTech Growth Syndicate
Gayemarie Brown
CEO & Founder, Wintam Place Consulting Group
Janet Ecker
President & CEO TFSA
Azim Lila
Senior Manager, Digital Strategy & Business, Development, PC Financial
Elizabeth Walford Walford Partners Inc.
Ross Laver
SVP Business Council of Canada
Jim Orlando
Managing Director OMERS Ventures
Simon Chan
Assistant VP, Strategic Initiatives Retail Markets, Manulife
Peter Misek
Partner BDC IT Venture Fund
Janice Diner
Founding Partner & CEO Horizn
Ula Ubani
Chief Ethics Officer BMO Financial Group
Master of Ceremonies Philippe Garneau
BRAND ENGINEERING
President, Executive Creative Director GWP Brand Engineering
Colin Lindsell-Ocio Founder & Consultant OCIO Ltd.
Mike Woollatt
CEO Canadian Venture Capital Association
Judges Panel
Geoffrey Cher
Valerie Fox
Partner Wildeboer Dellelce LLP.
Chief Innovation Consultant The Pivotal Point
Peggy Van de Plassche
Matthew Hobbs
VP Innovation CIBC
Alexander Peh
Head of Market Development & Mobile Pay Pal
Dubie Cunningham VP Innovation Scotiabank
VP Business Development TFSA
Taylor Russell
Director, Canada Opportunity Network
Lina Ismail
Director Business Development FundSERV
Sue Hutchison Group Head Global Payments D+H
Cynthia Stark
Business Development Manager OCE
Nav Kaur
Jacob Jegher
SVP, Banking & Head of Strategy Javelin
Darrell MacMullin
Kris Hansen
Michael O’Loughlin
Tamara Zimmerman
VP Global Digital Strategy Sun Life Financial
Senior Principal Financial Services SAP
Cathy Logue
David Unsworth
Managing Director Stanton Chase
Co-founder Information Venture Partners
Iain Montgomery
Xavier Debane
Engagement Manager Market Gravity
VP Innovation Manulife
Payments Navigator CGI
Craig Haney
Director Innovation Communitech
Dan Latimore
Senior Vice President Banking at Celent
CEO Goldmoney
Adam Nanjee
Head of FinTech & Innovation MaRS
Alex Norman
Richard Rémillard President Remillard Consulting Group
Marianne Bulger
AVP Innovation BDC
Managing Director TechToronto
Jonathan Rezek
Matthieu Cardinal VP Finance Montréal
Director, Innovation York University
Hussam Ayyad
Dr. Alex LaPlante
Vinay Venugopal
National Innovation Team IBM
Director of Startup Services The DMZ
Research Manager Global Risk Institute
Carrie Russell
Independent Consultant & Advisor
Kevin Clark
Vicki Saunders Founder SheEO
John Hillis
Director of Community TechToronto
President & Co-Founder Lendified
Director Marketing Zag Bank
Sarah Howe
Rob Antoniades
Chami Akmeemana
VP IT Strategy R&D Tangerine
Co-founder Information Venture Partners
FinTech Advisor OSC
Academic Institution Most Supportive of FinTech Governance, Thought Leader or Organization of the Year
FinTech Association of Canada
Accelerator, Incubator or Entrepreneurial Network Most Supportive of FinTech
Global Impact in FinTech
Professional Services Firm of the Year Global Impact in FinTech
Investor of the Year
Judge’s Choice Judge’s Choice
Financial Institution Innovator of the Year
FinTech Incumbent of the Year FinTech Startup of the Year
The Canadian FinTech Awards 2016 Nominees Academic Institution Most supportive of Fintech
Munk School of Global Affairs Zone Start-ups (Ryerson Futures, et.al.) Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
Accelerator, Incubator, Ent. Network FCP Studio MaRS Discovery District Stanley Park Ventures Canadian Lenders Association Communitech DMZ at Ryerson University Tech TO
Financial Institution Innovator of the Year
CIBC Manulife Financial ATB Financial Aviva BMO EQ Bank Conexus Credit Union The Bank of Nova Scotia, Digital Factory
FinTech Incumbent of the Year Securefact Veriday Zafin Ethoca Croesus Interac Association / ACXSYS Mogo Questrade SAP Thinking Capital TouchBistro Wave Accounting
FinTech Startup of the Year Agreement Express Borrowell Cover Dwello Finn.ai FrontFundr Fundthrough Lendified Inc. (Vault Circle Inc.) LowestRates.ca nTrust Outside IQ Overbond Payment Rails Perfiqt Plooto Rentmoola Reportin Sensibill Smarttick Tilt Wealthica Zensurance Crelogix GainX Granify Progressa Sonnet Time is Life (STIL Risk) TIO Networks Vuru Bendigi Tech Inc. ClientDesk CoinPayments Inc FormHero Freshbooks Goldmoney Inc. Grow League Inc. Nanopay Corp. Opportunity Network Payment Source Smoothpay Solsteace Inc Trulioo Wealthsimple Wiser Investments
Global Impact Award
Innotribe at Swift Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Innovate Finance LeEco PayPal Satoshi Nakamoto Uber
Governance Individual or Group of the Year
BCLC (British Columbia Lottery Corp FinTech Association of Canada Lendified Holdings Inc Matt Hobbs TFSA Members of The Muskoka Group
Investor of the Year Ferst Captial Partners BDC IT Venture Fund Difference Capital Gravitas Securities Impression Ventures Peter Misek Portag3 Ventures Omers Ventures Ketty
Professional Services Don and Alex Tapscott LaBarge Weinstein LLP Wildeboer Dellelce LLP Deloitte Digital Architech Blakes Capgemini Market Gravity Osler McCarthy Tetrault LLP
FinTech Partner Sponsorships
Media Sponsor
BRAND ENGINEERING
Community Supporters
FinTech Ecosystem Supporters
Click here to view photos from the evening.
Thank you to all the attendees of the 2016 FinTech Awards. We look forward to seeing you for the 3rd Annual FinTech Awards, October 2017 in Toronto.
Contact Us
Sue Britton
Awards Chair, Advisor sue@digitalfinanceinstitute.org
Christine Duhaime
Founder & Executive Director christine@digitalfinanceinstitute.org
Philippe Garneau
Creative Director, GWP Brand Engineering philippeg@brandengineering.com