Shahrzad Rafati
Shahrzad Rafati is the founder and CEO of BroadbandTV Corp, a digital media and technology company that provides content creation, distribution, management, and monetization solutions. Shahrzad has built BroadbandTV as a quadruple bottom line business and measures success across employee, community, environmental, and financial KPIs, citing a workforce of over 40% female employees and managers with a 0% gender pay gap.
Shahrzad was born 1979 in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Vancouver, Canada as a teenager. In 2005, she completed her BSc in computer science at the University of British Columbia, becoming a member of the Golden Key International Honors Society. Rafati also studied French at Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV), and is a graduate of the Young Global Leaders Oxford Module: Transformational Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Main Contributions
- Appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to represent Canada on the Business Women Leaders task force in G20 summit, 2018
- Vice-Chair of Invest in Canada, 2019
- Speaker at events such as TEDx and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos,
- Winner of numerous business-related awards since 2011.
- Canadian SME Magazine, Business Woman of the Year, 2020
- AdAge Creativity Awards, Visionary/Founder of The Year, 2019
- Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the Year, Pacific, Technology Category, 2018
- Canadian Innovation Awards Winner – Entrepreneur, 2018
- Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner – Hall of Fame, 2017
- Canada’s Top 40 under 40, 2017
- RBC Canadian Immigrant Awards, 2017
- Hollywood Reporter’s 20 Most Powerful Women in Global Television, 2016
- Person of the Year by BC Technology Association, 2016
- TheWrap’s Innovator List, 2016
- Variety’s Power of Women list, 2015
- Business Intelligence Group Woman of the Year, 2015
- Digital Life Design (DLD), Munich, Germany, panelist: Digital Storytelling: Surfing the Video Explosion, 2014
- Digi Awards, Executive of The Year, 2013
- Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100™ Award Winner in the Sun Life Financial Arts & Communications category, 2013
- Ernst & Young, Pacific Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year, 2013
- Business In Vancouver, CEO of The Year, 2013
- 40 Under 40 Business in Vancouver, 2012
- Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, 2011
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