Our People
Meet the leaders behind the world’s easiest background checks.
Our Leadership Team
Andrew McLeod
CEO + Co-Founder
Andrew McLeod is a co-founder and the CEO of Certn. Under his leadership, Certn has won multiple regional awards including 2nd in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ (Canada) and 24th in North American Technology Fast 500™.
Andrew is no stranger to disrupting a variety of tech industries. As the Chief Strategic Officer of RentMoola, he altered the rent payments space.
During his free time, Andrew enjoys surfing off the coast of Vancouver Island with his family.
Owen Madrick
COO + Co-Founder
Owen Madrick is a co-founder and the COO of Certn. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant in both Canada and the US with experience raising capital (~$200M), acquiring businesses, working with banking partners, and obtaining government incentives.
With Certn, Owen is working to give consumers back ownership of their own information through a decentralized digital credentialing tool that allows applicants to securely share their verified information to create new opportunities.
Michael Coombs
CFO
Michael’s journey from Software Architect at DWL to Wall Street banking at UBS and RBC, followed by strategic roles at GlobalFoundries and leadership in the startup world at Ripcord, has shaped him into the financial expert he is today.
Originally from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, Michael currently lives in Belmont, California with his family. He enjoys surfing in his free time.
Evan Dalton
Co-Founder
Evan Dalton is a co-founder of Certn. He has over a decade of entrepreneurship and corporate sales experience, with a wide breadth of successful ventures under his belt in property management, real estate, and payments.
Evan was previously at RentMoola as their Vice President, Business Development. Now, as an investor and advisor, Evan helps exciting new companies gain access to new markets. When not starting or helping tech companies you can find him traveling, playing squash, tennis, running, or on a patio having a beer.
Serkan Honeine
Revenue
Lives: Sydney, Australia
Education: Commerce (Finance and Accounting) degree from University of New South Wales.
Key Work Experience: CRO at Ai-Media (ASX: AIM), CCO at Multichoice (MCG:JNB), Pan-African Pay TV Director of Media Products portfolio and various marketing roles at Telstra.
Proud to Be: father to rainbow twin 3-year olds
Loves to: play soccer, tennis, or write poetry
Fun Fact: Built and sold the largest fitness e-commerce retailer across ANZ.
Shannon Davidson
Legal + Compliance
Lives: Victoria, Canada
Key Work Experience: litigation background in labour and employment law
Proud to Be: tasked with building the Legal & Compliance team at Certn from scratch.
Fun Fact: played varsity hockey with Hayley Wickenheiser under Danielle Goyette (Go Dinos!).
Ed Hickey
Product
Lives: Brighton, UK
Key Work Experience: Growth focussed with broad global leadership experience; 15 years of leadership in global background checks.
Proud to Be: building and running digital product agency, helping start-ups and scale-ups succeed through technology.
Loves to: spend time with family, play tennis, and travel (eating as many local delicacies as possible along the way).
Chris Palk
Engineering
Lives: Brighton, UK
Education: MBA & Computer Science.
Key Work Experience: Worked for Morgan Stanley, HireRight, Dabapps; Managed remote teams in India, Poland, Nashville, Wales, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Tulsa.
Proud to Be: build an amazing company with some lovely people.
Loves to: walking long distances, pinball, wine, travelling, bad Welsh rock music
Fun Fact: built 80-100 mobile and web apps.
Board of Directors
Andrew McLeod
Shawn Abbott
Steve Cadigan
Elizabeth Weil
Brendan Moore
Rashmi Gopinath
Join the Certonians
We’re a growing global technology company reinventing the way businesses build trust. We’re soccer players, DIY creators, karaoke lovers, pet parents, cheese connoisseurs, and so much more! More importantly, we’re changemakers who disrupt, innovate, transform, and who won’t settle for how it’s always been done.
We’re looking for more team members to help us level up and want to hear from you! Join our global team of over 400 people living the dream at Certn.