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Alexander Dahl

Founder and CEO, Akinox

Digital health

Alexander Dahl is the founder and chief executive of Akinox, the Quebec digital health company he started in 2010 around virtual care for isolated northern communities. Under Dahl, Akinox built Quebec's COVID-19 screening questionnaire, its case-tracing platform and the VaxiCode vaccine passport, growing from about ten staff to nearly 90 in two years.

Alexander hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Alexander co-founded Akinox.

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Did Alexander Dahl found Akinox?

Yes. Akinox's own site attributes a quote to him as Founder & CEO, La Presse called him PDG et fondateur d'Akinox on 2022-04-05, and Radio-Canada called him the founder and PDG on 2021-08-21. Akinox says it was founded in 2010.

What did Akinox do during the pandemic?

La Presse reported on 2022-04-05 that the Quebec government approached Akinox on 15 March 2020 and that it built an online screening questionnaire in three days, then a case-tracing platform used by more than 7,500 public health workers, and VaxiCode, which delivered 12 million QR codes.

Is he still chief executive?

Akinox's site, checked 2026-10-13, still names him founder and CEO, and a company release on its Jetty Solutions AI venture quotes him as CEO & Founder of Akinox and co-founder of Jetty. No succession has been announced; Mark Casselman joined in September 2024 as chief growth officer (Canadian Healthcare Technology, 2024-09-04).

Has he been recognised for the work?

The Chambre de commerce et d'industrie du Grand Lévis named him business personality of the year at its Pléiades gala on 2023-05-25. La Presse reported that VaxiCode won the Quebec health ministry's e-solution of the year prize in November 2021.

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