CEO of Speakers’ Spotlight One of Canada’s Most Powerful Women in 2008
Farah Perelmuter Receives The Women’s Executive Network (WXN)™ Entrepreneur Award
Press Release - November 27, 2008
The Women’s Executive Network (WXN)™ has named Farah Perelmuter, co-founder and CEO of Speakers’ Spotlight, Canada's leading speakers bureau (www.speakers.ca), as a winnerof the 2008 Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100™ in the Entrepreneur Category.
The Women’s Executive Network (WXN)™ is Canada's most influential female audience and the country's leading organization dedicated to the advancement and recognition of executive-minded women in the workplace. Since 1997, WXN has expanded rapidly to meet the needs of the growing number of female managers and executives across Canada. The organization celebrated their sixth annual Top 100™ Awards with a Luncheon and Summit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Tuesday.
“I am thrilled to be honoured alongside such influential and powerful women leaders,” said Farah Perelmuter. “ As I build my business, WXN provides me with the opportunity to network with, learn from, and share my experiences with these remarkable people. I am happy to celebrate my success with my peers.”
Speakers’ Spotlight is an agency (with offices across Canada) that represents the most highly-acclaimed and best-selling authors, business visionaries, athletes, political leaders, entertainers, adventurers and inspiring individuals. Speakers include; General (Ret) Rick Hillier, Justin Trudeau, The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson, Margaret Trudeau, Buzz Hargrove, The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark, John Ralston Saul, David Suzuki, Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, Michael “Pinball” Clemons, Ron MacLean, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Stephen Lewis, Preston Manning, Jessica Holmes, Jeanne Beker, Valerie Pringle, Pamela Wallin, Wendy Mesley, Ron MacLean, Cheryl Hickey, Evan Solomon, Roberta Bondar, Ben Mulroney, Darryl Sittler, Ron James, and many more. They have also worked with such notable celebrities as Jane Fonda, Robert Kennedy Jr., Gloria Steinem, and the late Christopher Reeve, along with many others. Corporations, associations and organizations worldwide contact Speakers’ Spotlight to book these speakers for their events.
Speakers' Spotlight was co-founded by Farah and Martin Perelmuter in 1995 - the same year they got married, moved, quit their jobs and took an entrepreneurial leap of faith. Speakers' Spotlight has been listed in Profit Magazine's PROFIT 100, Canada's authoritative ranking of high-growth companies, and earlier this year, Farah and Martin Perelmuter were finalists for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, and were named "Most Inclusive Employer" by the 2008 Walk the Talk Awards.
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