Carol Leaman President & CEO, Axonify

Carol is responsible for driving the overall strategic direction and Axonify’s commitment to revolutionizing how employees build knowledge that drives performance. Carol brings more than 20 years of leadership and technology executive experience to the company as she has a history of building start-ups into multi-million dollar successes.

From 2008 to 2011, Carol was the CEO of PostRank, a company she sold to Google after evolving its technology from a cool, free web tool, to a unique, customer-centric social media play. Prior to PostRank, she helmed RSS Solutions (enterprise class manufacturing software), and Fakespace Systems (a high-end virtual reality company) both of whom she successfully sold to strategic acquirers.

Carol brings her experience and insight to numerous not-for-profit and for-profit boards, is a much sought-after keynote speaker and has won multiple awards, including the Waterloo Region Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Intrepid Award (2011) and the Sarah Kirke Award (2010) for Canada’s leading female entrepreneur.