John Sully

Founder of Phasar Labs

Founder

KeyDB· Summer 2020 🇨🇦 Greater Toronto Area, Canada

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2025Chief Executive Officer· Phasar Labs

Founder · since 2018

Company

Phasar Labs

Role

Chief Executive Officer

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

Toronto, ON

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Experience

Career

Phasar Labs
Chief Executive Officer · Toronto, ON · 2025 – Present
2025
Snap Inc.
Engineering Manager · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2022 – 2025
2022
EQ Alpha Technology
Founder
Founder and CEO · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2018 – 2022
2018
Microsoft
Senior Engineer · 2015 – 2017
2015
Microsoft
SDE II · Redmond, WA · 2010 – 2015
2010
Microsoft
SDE Intern · Redmond WA · 2007 – 2009
2007
Mixxx
Developer/Contributor · 2007 – 2008
2007
Ryerson University
Research Assistant · 2007
2007
Wal-Mart Canada
Customer Service Manager · Oakville, ON · 2004 – 2006
2004

Bio

John wrote his first program at the age of 8, and since then has a history of pushing the limits of technology. At Microsoft John was responsible for ensuring Excel’s performance was orders of magnitude faster than the competition. John also lead a team effort to port Excel’s grid rendering stack to Android and iOS ensuring Excel would be a dominate player in a mobile first world.