Tony Di Benedetto


Tony Di Benedetto
Nationality Canadian
Occupation businessman

Tony Di Benedetto is a Canadian entrepreneur who has built, operated and divested various Canadian businesses since the 1990s.[1] Di Benedetto is Chief Executive Officer at Drone Delivery Canada, a technology firm based in Toronto that is pioneering drone delivery technology for Canadian retailers, service providers and government agencies.[2]

Di Benedetto co-founded Drone Delivery Canada with his brother Paul Di Benedetto, a Vaughan, Ontario based data center colocation services provider. The objective was to pioneer and develop a next-generation drone logistics platform to service corporate and government clients. Launched in January 2014, Drone Delivery Canada is currently engaged with leading Canadian academics and industry leaders to develop and implement this platform.[3] Drone Delivery Canada is seeking to become the first Canadian drone company to go public on a Canadian stock exchange.[4]

Di Benedetto also holds board positions in other ventures including Data Centre Realty, a Canadian data centre design / build firm, and Di Benedetto Group, a real estate investment group. Di Benedetto has been involved in a number of other Canadian ventures include leading successful start-ups in managed services, hosting, data center construction services and wireless broadband network sectors.[5]

In 2009, Di Benedetto launched Data Centers Canada along with his brother Paul.[6] In May 2013, Terago Networks, a Toronto Stock Exchange listed telecom services provider acquired Data Centers Canada.,[7][8]

References

  1. "TonyDiBenedetto.ca". TonyDiBenedetto.ca. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  2. "Management Team". Drone Delivery Canada. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  3. "Drone Delivery Canada Commercially Launches". Drone Delivery Canada. February 2, 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
  4. "Here come the drones — and the investment opportunities aren't far behind". Financial Post. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  5. "Tony Di Benedetto Ventures". Ventures. tonydibenedetto.ca. March 21, 2016. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  6. "Data Centers Canada takes the heat off cooling" (PDF). Powerstream Energy Business Magazine. January 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
  7. "TeraGo buys Data Centers Canada for $9.5m". DatacenterDynamics. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
  8. "Tony Di Benedetto Ventures". tonydibenedetto.ca. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
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