Zak Hemraj is the Co-founder and CEO of Loopio, a Toronto-based software company that
helps organizations streamline their process for answering RFPs, DDQs, and Security
Questionnaires. Before Loopio, he spent 8 years at Achievers where he learned the
fundamentals of software development and sales, and helped scale the company to serve
millions of users across the world.
Zak took the entrepreneurial plunge in 2014. He co-founded Loopio with his closest friends, Matt
York and Jafar Owainati, and they had one thing in mind — build a great, enduring company.
Since then, Loopio has grown to over 200 people, serving more than 1,000 customers globally.
They were ranked 28th on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ Awards and selected as one
of LinkedIn’s Top Startups in Canada two years in a row. Loopio raised $9M in Series A funding
from OpenView Venture Partners in 2018 and a $200M strategic investment from Sumeru
Equity Partners in 2021 to further accelerate growth.
Since Loopio’s inception, Zak’s focus areas have spanned product, customer success, sales,
finance, and all things culture. He is a people-focused leader that loves building things,
regardless of the domain.
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Sean is the President and CEO of Reliance Home Comfort, a Canadian leader in home and commercial services, providing water heaters, furnaces, air conditioners and other HVAC products, plumbing, protection plans and related services to more than 1.7 million customers across Canada and the US. Since becoming President and CEO in 2013, Sean has focused on planning and implementing strategies to drive growth with an emphasis on strong execution, streamlining operations. In the process, he has improved productivity and profitability, and fostered a high-performance culture — keeping the customer at the core of the business. In 2016, Reliance was recognized as Canada’s Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone Human Capital, and Sean was awarded Canada’s Most Admired CEO. Additionally, in 2017, Sean was recognized as one of Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs 2017 Employees’ Choice.
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