CanShield Data Center

CanShield provides colocation services from edge data centres within Canada, helping companies manage the exponential growth in data collection and management.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry IT Services
  • Location Kamloops, BC, Canada
  • Currency CAD
  • Founded December 2017
  • Employees 4
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website canshield.ca

Company Summary

Founded in late 2017 and based in Kamloops, CanShield provides secure and reliable colocation and disaster recovery services. Our owned and operated 10,500 sq. ft. facility is situated in a prime seismically stable location to offer direct hosting services, supported by 360 strands of fibre. CanShields goal is to become the leading edge data centre provider in Canada, by deploying multiple small and medium sized facilities for rapid IT support.

Team

  • George Emery
    CEO

    George is the CEO of CanShield Data Center a colocation and disaster recovery data center. Prior to this, George worked in the telecoms industry for close to 10 years, building multi-million dollar infrastructure projects in Eastern Canada. Following this, George spent 6 years at a consultancy company in Montreal on market analysis and sales. George holds a Bsc in Computing and Economics, along with an MBA.

  • Chris Visser
    VP Sales and Marketing

    Chris has over 20 years' experience in strategy and stakeholder development across both private and public sectors. His emphasis has been on decoding industries, project management, marketing and communications, entrepreneurship and campaign execution in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

  • Reginald Guliford
    Facility Manager

    Reg has over 25 years of federal government experience in the design, construction and support of mission critical IT infrastructure. Reg has held all security clearances that exist in the Federal government.

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