Blast Ramp Manifesto
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Our vision of the Blast Ramp platform is driven by the following 5 core principles:
- To save you time
- To save you money
- To be easy to use
- To act as your 'framework' for success
and most importantly
- To listen, learn, and grow based on your needs
Simply put - we are changing the way the small business world works. We want you to join us.
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Our Story
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It all started way back in 2001 when we founded a 3rd party fulfillment company. The idea behind it was to provide Canadian warehousing and distribution services on behalf of American product manufacturers.
Our company would give these US brands the opportunity to maintain sales control of their product without needing to operate their own facility north of the border.
In growing our business we knew we needed some form of Warehouse Management
System and set out to find one that would fit our needs. As things go, we went through numerous software providers that all wanted to charge an arm and a leg for their bloated systems. And long story short, it was at this point that we decided to scratch our own itch and began building
the Blast Ramp platform.
From 2001 to 2004 we continued to develop our software for our own needs and were giving our customers visibility into our warehouse like no other system could. It was at this time that our
customers started coming to us with suggestions on how they could use the platform to better their businesses (eg. order entry for sales reps). We saw this as an opportunity to further our
competitive advantage and jumped on it. Over the next few years we increased the functionality for the brand/manufacturer and also began to have other 3rd party fulfillment providers come knocking
on our door asking to use our system.
By 2007 we had warehouses on 3 continents using our platform and were giving over 80 brands a low-cost platform to run their business worldwide. With this model emerging we made a decision to
get out of the warehousing business and focus on the software. It took a little while but by late 2008 we had removed ourselves from the operations of the warehouse and were focused directly on the Blast Ramp platform and that brings us up to today.
We've seen a lot in the near decade we've been in business and we're confident that the things we've learned can help your brand grow globally.
Contact us today, we're eager to show you what we can do for you.
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Our Team
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 | Monty McCallum
CEO / Founder
Monty is one of the founding Blasters. Blast Ramp is the fifth business that he's started. He feels fortunate to have other amazing founders standing by his side for this adventure. Monty is gathering the collective successes, intelligence, and energy of the Blast Ramp team, and translating that into a service that makes business growth easier. He leads with a positive style that attracts great stakeholders.
When Monty's not with his family or gettin' Blasty, he can be found studying how human's work and/or engaging his adrenal glands. |
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 | Mike Kirk
CIO
Mike has been involved with Blast Ramp since its inception. He is obsessed with the web and what it can do for small business. He often wakes up in the middle of the night with random ideas that range from adding a fish pond to Blast Ramp to how we can more efficiently improve our inventory allocation algorithm. Some call him weird, we just call him special. Whatever the case, he is a visionary on a rampage to change the way products end up in your hands.
When Mike isn't working he enjoys spending his time at home with his wife and 2 kids. He also has a passion for inventing new handshakes and learning new dance steps. |
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 | Barb Bishop
Customer Delight Manager
Barb has been involved with Blast Ramp since our early warehousing days. She’s a pleaser, our customer delight manager, and is driven by helping our customers use the platform to its full potential. Her goals are to support her team, stoke her customers and ensure delight!
When Barb's not working you won’t find her at home. She’s always on the go, enjoying the city and the amazing people she surrounds herself with.
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Our Advisors
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 | Danny Robinson
Managing Director - Bootup Labs
Danny has been starting and advising early stage technology companies for over 15 years. In this time, he has closed more than $100M over 9 rounds of venture capital financing. Prior to founding Bootup Labs, Danny co-founded Strutta, a platform that enables anyone, from a small publisher to the world's premier brands, to easily create online promotions centered around consumer generated content and social media. As an accomplished entrepreneur, Danny works to promote Vancouver as the tech center he believes it can be by connecting local entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley-based VCs, co-organizing the popular tech mixer, Launch Party, speaking at local and international tech events and serving on the Science World Equity Committee. Danny is a member of the Board of Directors for Strutta, Suite 101, and the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society. |
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 | Boris Mann
Managing Director - Bootup Labs
Boris Mann is a noted Vancouver technology evangelist and open source specialist. Boris co-founded Bryght, the first commercial company focused on the Drupal open source content management system in 2004, and helped grow the Drupal community to a worldwide ecosystem of businesses and developers. Previously, he ran a boutique tech consulting firm in Ottawa, and worked with Nortel's system engineering team helping to build technical and economic models for new technologies like VoIP.
Boris has a passion for engaging communities, from distributed open source teams to the local innovators in Vancouver. He is one of the founding organizers of Northern Voice, the first Canadian blogging conference. He also is active in many developer communities, helping put on BarCamps, DemoCamps, and the Open Source CMS Summit on multiple continents. Boris is a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Victoria, where he went after a coin flip made him choose between university and becoming a professional chef. |
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 | Jim Derbyshire
Angel Investor
Jim Derbyshire is an Angel Investor, Serial Entrepreneur and Advisor increasingly focused on consumer internet, wireless application and casual gaming opportunities. Following an early career in larger companies, he has been in the start up world as founder, CEO (Symbionics, SiGe), Angel, VC and Board member for the last 21 years. He has experienced growing businesses in many business models, low capital “bootstrap”, Angel, Corporate and VC backed, raising over $100M of finance during his career and selling several companies. Jim is currently angel investing, the Mentor-In-Residence at SFU, a mentor at NVBC and a Board member at Veridae Systems and BC SVP. |
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 | John McDonald
Founder - Rampworth Capital Services
John McDonald is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Rampworth Capital Services Inc. In fact, it was his personal passion, for strategically raising value before raising money, that originally sparked the creation of Rampworth.
A career entrepreneur, John has founded, funded and built several successful ventures over the past 20 years. |
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 | Ben Nyland
President - Rampworth Capital Services
Ben Nyland has been President of Rampworth sinsce 2007. Ben graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta in 1993. Having worked as an engineer for IBM and Nortel, he transitioned to the role of Internet marketing manager at a startup software company in 1996 where he began to learn the ins and outs of electronic software delivery, marketing software on the Web, and began a fascination with the ever changing world of the Internet.
Ben has a passion for working with small and mid-sized companies to implement sustainable growth strategies. |
Our Customers
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