Overview

Gender

female

A progressive entrepreneur and active investor, Shahrzad is the Founder and CEO of BroadbandTV (BBTV), a media-tech company that is advancing the world through the management, distribution, and monetization of content. Today, BBTV achieves tens of billions of monthly views and remains the second largest video property globally by monthly uniques.

In addition to building an incredibly successful company that has experienced phenomenal growth, she has built a quadruple bottom line business that measures success not only on financial performance but also on people, social, and environmental KPIs. BBTV proudly has a 0% pay gap between male and female employees, and strives for a gender balanced (50/50) workforce overall.

Shahrzad actively pursues ways to encourage social change, championing equality in all forms. She is passionate about job creation, education, and advancing opportunities for women, girls, and refugees. In September 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed her to represent Canada on the G20 Business Women Leader’s task force, a global initiative to drive actionable, measurable, and results-driven solutions to impact women’s economic empowerment.

An active thought leader, Shahrzad contributes to a broad range of business publications including Forbes, and Fortune, and has been widely recognized over the last decade for her contributions to entrepreneurship, equal rights, and job creation. Recent awards include: 2018 Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the Year, Pacific, Technology Category; 2018 Canadian Innovation Awards Winner - Entrepreneur; 2017 The Hollywood Reporter’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Global Television; 2016 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner in the BMO Arts & Communications category; 2016 BCTIA’s Person of the Year.