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GC Strategies

GC Strategies is a Canadian information technology contractor based in Ottawa, Ontario.

History

GC Strategies was founded in 2015.[1]

GC Strategies was hired by the Government of Canada to assist in the planning of the country's 5G rollout.[2]

COVID-19

GC Strategies was hired by the Canadian Digital Service to develop the COVID Alert app.[3] The firm was also tapped through pre-existing contracts with the Government of Canada to develop the ArriveCAN app with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC).[4]

On March 25, 2021, GC Strategies announced a partnership with Level Access.[1:1]

Personnel

Name Position Notes
Kristian Firth Partner Veritaaq, Experis
Darren Anthony Partner I4C Consulting, Veritaaq, TELUS, Saint Mary's University, Experis
Caleb White Partner (former) Wells Fargo, Veritaaq, Redwood Global, I4C Consulting, Apollo Consulting, Climate Engine
Wes Jarvis Partner (former) Lixar, IBM, Donna Cona, Experis, Veritaaq, Nobel Biocare

Partners

Current and former partners of GC Strategies include:[5]

  • Agora Consulting
  • Cogniva
  • Innovexa Solutions
  • ObjectiveSpark
  • Oproma
  • ROOT Data Center
  • Thinking Big

Clients

GC Strategies' clients include:[6][7][2:1]


  1. Garcia, L. (2021, March 25). GC Strategies Partners with Level Access on Government of Canada Accessibility Initiatives. PRWeb. https://web.archive.org/web/20210417183457/https://www.prweb.com/releases/gc_strategies_partners_with_level_access_on_government_of_canada_accessibility_initiatives/prweb17823944.htm#:~:text=Founded in 2015%2C GC Strategies,Mobile Application Development and Biometrics ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. Home. GC Strategies. Retrieved April 24, 2018, from https://web.archive.org/web/20180424060613/http://www.gcstrategies.ca/ ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. COVID Alert. GC Strategies. Retrieved June 3, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230603020431/https://gcstrategies.ca/covid-alert/index.html ↩︎

  4. Clark, C. (2022, October 24). Nobody knows what happened with ArriveCan, but it sure was lucrative for some. The Globe and Mail. http://archive.today/2022.10.24-165744/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-nobody-knows-what-happened-with-arrivecan-but-it-sure-was-lucrative/ ↩︎

  5. Home. GC Strategies. Retrieved January 12, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20160112152202/http://www.gcstrategies.ca/ ↩︎

  6. Home. GC Strategies. Retrieved April 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230411020608/https://gcstrategies.ca/ ↩︎

  7. Home. GC Strategies. Retrieved August 23, 2017, from https://web.archive.org/web/20170823140208/http://www.gcstrategies.ca/ ↩︎