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Darcy Zhang Is Betting on the Signal Before the Drone
A commerce graduate and former infanteer is building Greypoint Industries around a severe test: would he trust the hardware with his own life?
Damon Ockey Designs for the Long Run
A second-generation homebuilder with an industrial designer's eye, Damon Ockey has spent decades turning attention into something tangible - homes, community spaces, accessible details and laps that raise money for children.
Fred Edwards Built a Career in the Work Everyone Notices Only When It Stops
For more than four decades, Fred Edwards has worked in the business behind working buildings. His route from long shifts in Calgary to GDI's executive ranks reveals a practical idea of leadership: build the operation, strengthen the network, then open a door for whoever comes next.
Jocelyn Da Silva Came Home With a Marketer’s Eye for What Makes Trust Stick
After nearly a decade building brands in Perth, Jocelyn Da Silva returned to Calgary and entered the new-home warranty business. Her career offers a practical lesson in making complex services feel clear, useful and human.
Rosanne Goetz and the Quiet Architecture of Being Heard
For a decade at The Mustard Seed, Rosanne Goetz has worked where attention, trust and practical help meet. Her career offers a grounded lesson in nonprofit marketing: the story matters because someone is waiting on the other side of it.
Gregory Feniak Is Making the Credit Card Feel Local Again
The Calgary payments executive has spent two decades turning back-office complexity into products credit-union members can actually use. His latest chapter carries the same collaborative instinct from the card network into the community.
Vicki Knott
Vicki Knott is the CEO and co-founder of CruxOCM, a Calgary-based industrial autonomy software company building AI-powered automation for oil and gas control rooms. A chemical engineer (P.Eng.) who started on the plant floor and trained as a pipeline control room operator at TransCanada, she left in 2017 to co-found CruxOCM with Roger Shirt. Her company's RIPA (Robotic Industrial Process Automation) technology automates the manual, high-stakes work of pipeline operators, and raised a $17M Series A led by Microsoft's M12 venture fund in 2024.
John Marshall
John Marshall is the President and CEO of Userful, the software company that swapped racks of proprietary AV hardware for a browser and a network cable. Named CEO in October 2018, he pivoted a video-wall vendor into a software-defined platform for enterprise-wide operational awareness, the Userful Infinity Platform, now used by hundreds of enterprises across control rooms, command centers and digital signage. A Northwestern and University of Michigan graduate with 25-plus years leading wireless, IoT and networking startups, he ran Userful to 50% year-over-year enterprise sales growth in 2024 with 80% of revenue flowing through a global channel of roughly 100 partners. Off the clock he is a former backcountry guide and adventure racer turned birder.