Jamaican-born entrepreneur Lamar Falconer, co-founder and CEO of AltoLeap Inc., has been awarded the Black Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2024 CanadianSME Small Business Awards. The award was presented during the CanadianSME Small Business Awards Gala, held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 20, 2025. The prestigious award recognizes Falconer’s outstanding leadership in technology and his contributions to Canada’s small and medium-sized business ecosystem.
Falconer, who attended Glenmuir High School in Jamaica before migrating to Canada, has built a reputation as a tech leader who blends deep engineering expertise with strategic business insight. Since launching AltoLeap in 2012, he has led the company from a modest startup to a leading provider of cloud-native enterprise software solutions, now helping clients across manufacturing, transportation, and service industries manage over $100 million in annual revenue…. read more
