E O Y
H o s p i t a l i t y + T o u r i s m
W I N N E R
C H R I S T O P H E R
K R Y W U L A K
[ P RESIDENT AND CEO, IQ METRIX ]
52 BCBusiness OCTOBER 2015
C
hristopher Krywulak
became an entre-
preneur because,
as he puts it, he
needed a place to work
where he could "¡t in."
After struggling through
the structured classroom
environment as a kid, the
Saskatchewan-born busi-
nessman knew an o"ce job
wasn't his style; nor was the
Regina-based steel plant
where he worked with his
father for a couple of years
after high school. "All that
was left for me was a start-
up business," he says.
Krywulak used the
money he earned from the
steelworker job to bootstrap
his ¡rst business in 1990,
a car-phone installation
company. That eventually
transformed into a wireless
retail chain in his home
province of Saskatchewan,
known today as Jump.ca. It
was while building that cel-
lular products business that
Krywulak came up with the
idea for his next venture,
iQmetrix, which creates
point-of-sale and other retail
management software for
retailers, mostly in the wire-
less sector. Long before data
became a critical tool in the
retail business, Krywulak
was using spreadsheets
to track sales activity at
Jump.ca. He developed a
B u s i n e s s - t o - B u s i n e s s
"Christopher is one
of the most success-
ful tech guys in
Vancouver that no
one knows. He has
built his company
without external
funds and has
deˆned a market-
place that did not
exist a few years ago"
T H E J U D G E S S A Y
winner
2015
