Special Guest Speaker

Shannon Byrne Susko

Serial Entrepreneur, Corporate Board Member (ICD.D, Harvard Directors Cert), CEO+LEADERSHIP team Coach 

Shannon has more than 30 years of experience serving on for profit and not for profit boards. Shannon has a breadth of experience serving in a variety of roles including Board Chair and various Committee Chair roles. She currently serves on the British Columbia Automobile Association as Board Chair, Canadian Sport Institute – Pacific, and Luge Canada. Some of the boards Shannon has served on in the past include Alberta Treasury Branches, Norsat International, Subserveo Inc, ACETECH, BC Premier’s Technology Council, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Capilano College, Electronic Transactions Association, Whistler Mountain Ski Club and BC Luge.

Shannon has been building high-growth companies since 1995. She has co-founded, served as CEO, and led the sale of the two global companies less than six years apart: Subserveo, Inc (Founded in 2008 * Sold 2011) and Paradata Systems Inc. (Founded in 1995 * Sold in 2006). She is currently the founder and CEO of Metronomics (June 2012) and is the co-founder and CEO of Metronome Growth Systems (Jan 2016) which is a cloud-based business platform for best practice high growth businesses, their CEOs, leaders, and Business Coaches. Metronomics is a community of over 80 international business coaches who are experts in the Metronomics Growth Operating System and are impacting high growth companies and their teams every day.

Shannon was recognized and inducted into the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada Hall of Fame in November of 2023. She has been recognized as Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada in 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023. In March 2020 as one Canada’s Top 25 Inspirational Women Leaders, Susko was also recognized as one of Canada’s 150 Women in 2017 and was awarded Canada’s Top 40 under 40 in 2001. She was awarded the Sarah Kirke Award for Canada’s Leading Women Entrepreneurs in 2006. Shannon was named Deal Maker of the Year in Vancouver in 2011 and was in the Top 3 Mid- Market Deals on Wall Street that year.

Shannon is a passionate about sport in Canada. She grew up playing multiple varsity sports in grade school and three varsity sports in university. Susko played on many club and provincial teams. Shannon is an experienced certified coach of soccer, hockey and alpine skiing. She is a certified official in Alpine Skiing and Luge. And is a very proud to have been a volunteer at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and as a Sochi Olympic Test Volunteer – both for Alpine Skiing.

Shannon has a BComm(Accounting/MIS), BSc(Comp Sci), from Saint Mary’s University and Masters in Computer Science from the Technical University of Nova Scotia. She is an avid endurance triathlete, alpine skier, surfer and a current member of the Canadian Master’s Field Hockey team. She is married with three children 19, 20, 21 and resides in beautiful Whistler, BC.