Deborah Rosati is an accomplished corporate director, business-savvy entrepreneur and a Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant with over 35 years of high-growth and transformational leadership experience in the technology, consumer, retail, cannabis, life sciences, private equity, and venture capital industries. Deborah has served as Chair of Audit Committee for five public companies, a Lead Director and Chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee for a public company and served on several Special Committees of the Board for a range of mandates (including going public, going private, M&A, restructuring and special investigations). Most recently, she served as Chair of the Special Committee for a going private transaction.

Deborah, as Founder and CEO of Women Get On Board Inc., leads an 850+ member social purpose company that connects, promotes and empowers women on corporate boards. Learn more at womengetonboard.ca.

Deborah’s passion fuels her work ethic. She is a steadfast champion of corporate governance, ESG, sustainability, and board diversity through her board leadership and her social purpose company committed to getting more women on boards. She is a change agent who is actively engaged with the wider corporate governance community through frequent speaking engagements, panel discussions, podcasts, and authoring articles and e-books to share her expertise and thought leadership. Learn more about her speaking and writing on her website, deborahrosati.ca.

Over the years, Deborah has been recognized through numerous nominations and awards. She was recently honoured with The SustainabilityX® Magazine’s inaugural Global 50 Women in Sustainability Award™ 2022. With a quest to “redefine power,” this award is the first international power list bringing together women (worldwide) involved in sustainability and celebrating the power of their work - not their positions. In 2021, she was recognized as one of WXN’s” Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women” in the Entrepreneur award category. She has also been honoured as a 2020 “Director to Watch” and a 2014 “Diversity 50” candidate. And in 2012, Deborah was selected as one of WXN’s “Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women” in the Corporate Director award category.

Deborah’s forward-thinking perspectives, honed from her entrepreneurial achievements and multiple governance leadership roles, make her an exceptionally valued trusted board member, advisor and mentor.