School of Accounting and Finance Fellowship Honourees

Carol Leaman, MAcc, CA

As CEO of RSS Solutions Inc., Carol is responsible for building on the Company’s successes to date, to ensure that we maximize the potential of growth opportunities worldwide.

Carol reports to the Board of Directors and works closely with Company President Michael Cox and the senior management team. She is responsible for overall operational performance of the Company, as well as developing, communicating, and executing its strategic direction.

Prior to joining RSS Solutions, Carol was President of Fakespace Systems, Inc. in Kitchener, Ontario, where she grew the company from a $3- million niche player into a $30-million world leader through a combination of business growth and mergers and acquisitions. While at Fakespace, she also negotiated external venture capital financing and executed a substantial U.S. and Canada corporate reorganization.

Before joining Fakespace Systems, Inc. in 1998 as Vice president of Finance and
Administration, Carol served as Corporate Controller at Electrohome Limited, a Canadian public company. In this role, she was instrumental in the spin-off of Electrohome’s broadcasting assets to a separate company, as well as raising over $100 million in outside financing over four years.

Before joining Electrohome, Carol was a public accountant for nine years in a variety of roles at KPMG.

A Chartered Accountant, Carol holds a Master of Accounting and a B.A. in Accounting/Finance from the University of Waterloo.

2006 Fellow: Saem Ok