About

Shannon Rogers started her legal career working on Bay Street in Toronto for a couple of years before realising that she would prefer the commercial exposure of an in-house legal role. Rogers’ strong entrepreneurial spirit and commercial drive pushed her to leave her law firm at the time, Borden Ladner Gervais, and join Global Relay, a Vancouver based IT company that only had three employees. During her 12 year time at the company, Global Relay has grown into an organisation with over $30m revenue and more than 200 employees based in offices in New York, Chicago, London, Singapore and Shanghai. Well known for her resilient personality and her ability to find ways to navigate complex challenges, even when they look like impenetrable obstacles, Rogers has been able to see Global Relay through a period of unprecedented growth. She formed and grew a successful team to meet the ever increasing legal needs of the company. Rogers has received many awards for her leadership and entrepreneurial merit, including Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, Top 10 Influential Women in BC Techin, and BC Women Entrepreneur.