Laurie Schultz

Laurie Schultz

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Laurie Schultz has over 30 years of technology-related experience spanning the personal finance, small business accounting, ERP, CRM and GRC categories with organizations including Galvanize, Sage, Intuit, KPMG, and TELUS.

As Director and CEO at Galvanize from 2011 to 2021, she became Canada’s first female CEO to lead a technology company to unicorn status on its April 2021 sale to Diligent for $1B USD. This followed a transformation agenda focused on culture, technology, business model, global go-to-market scale, corporate re-brand and M&A. Under her leadership, Galvanize raised over >$100M in debt and equity, securing the company’s position as a market leader across all major analyst reports and one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2018-2021), Most Admired Cultures (2018-2020) and Best Managed Companies (2019-2021).

Laurie has received multiple leadership awards including 2021 BC Technology Person of the Year, 2019 EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Pacific Region (Technology), 2019 Business in Vancouver’s (BIV’s) CEO of the Year, WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Hall of Fame), the 2015 Gold Stevie® Award for North America’s Female Executive of the Year, the YWCA's 2015 "Women of Distinction" award, BIV’s 2014 "Women of Influence" award, and Minerva Foundation's 2013 "Excellence in Leadership" award.

Laurie holds an MBA and a Bachelor of Commerce degree, both from University of Alberta and currently acts as a Director with software companies: Constellation Software, Riskalyze (Chair), Boast.ai (Chair) and UserZoom. Laurie is also a Strategic Advisor for Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) Forge, Vistara Growth and The 51.

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Honors & Awards

  • BC Technology Person of the Year

    BC Tech

  • CEO of the Year

    Business in Vancouver

  • EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Pacific Technology Sector Winner

    EY

  • Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Hall of Fame)

    Women's Executive Network (WXN)

    WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 Award recognizes and celebrates the incredible accomplishments of Canada’s top 100 female executive talent as well as their organizations and networks. Laurie has been recognized in the Scotiabank Corporate Executives category.

    A full list of winners can be found at: https://www.wxnetwork.com/top-100/top-100-winners/

  • Keeping People First CEO Award - Finalist

    CPHR BC&YK

    The Keeping People First: CEO Award is a distinction awarded by the Chartered Professionals in Human Resources of British Columbia and Yukon to recognize a CEO for outstanding leadership in people practices and supporting innovative HR.

  • Person of the Year - Finalist

    BC Tech Association Technology Impact Awards

    The TIA award for Person of the Year 2017 will be announced on June 22, 2017.

  • Female Executive of the Year N.A., Gold Medal

    Stevie Awards for Women in Business

  • Women of Distinction Award - Business and the Professions

    YWCA

  • Influential Women in Business Award

    Business in Vancouver

  • Excellence in Leadership

    Minerva Foundation for Women

  • Top 100 Women in the Channel - NA

    CRN

  • Top 20 Women in the IT Channel - Canada

    Computer Dealer News

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