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Neil Lane

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Stathletes

Sports analytics

Neil Lane is a co-founder of Stathletes, the hockey data and analytics company that started in a St. Catharines basement in 2010, and is now its Co-CEO and Chief Operating Officer. A Brock University business graduate, he built the company's first data collection software and was its CEO in the early years.

Neil hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Neil co-founded Stathletes, which appears in 1 talk in the archive.

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Did Neil Lane co-found Stathletes?

Yes. In a Globe and Mail article published June 19, 2014, he is named co-founder and CEO of Stathletes. A MaRS profile published April 13, 2016 says the company was founded in 2010 when co-founder John Chayka asked him to help develop statistics software, with Meghan Chayka also a co-founder.

What is his role today?

Stathletes' team page, checked September 24, 2026, lists him as Co-CEO and Chief Operating Officer, alongside Meghan Chayka as Co-CEO and Chief Marketing Officer.

How did Stathletes collect its data early on?

The MaRS profile of April 13, 2016 says he created the company's rules-based data collection software, and that staff logged about 600 plays and 100,000 data points by hand per game. At that time the company had 55 people on staff.

Where did he study?

St. Catharines' economic development office, in a post dated May 13, 2019, describes him as a Brock graduate (BBA 2008) from the Goodman School of Business. The MaRS profile of April 13, 2016 says he worked as a business analyst at McCain Foods before joining Stathletes.

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