Suzanne Braun

An experienced entrepreneur, Suzanne Braun is the Founder and Managing Partner of Relish New Brand Experience Inc. Since 1998, Suzanne has led the transition of Relish from a design boutique with one employee into an integrated agency of over 25. Suzanne championed Relish to become a Certified B-Corporation in 2017, voluntarily meeting the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.

Suzanne serves a number of roles in Relish’s mission to help companies design, launch and manage their overall brand experience across any platform. She provides oversight and project management to all strategic projects. Like many entrepreneurs and business owners, there’s no off switch. She’s powered by her passion for people and projects.

Experienced in the development and commercialization of technology, Suzanne was co-founder and CEO of Quipped Interactive Learning Tools from 2014-2019. Today she functions as fractional CMO for three start-ups, including Delphi Technology Group, currently scaling an award-winning Metaverse platform across Canada, USA and Southeast Asia.

Suzanne is a graduate of Impact8 (a social venture accelerator out of MaRS Discovery District in Toronto) and Ventureout (a New York edtech hyper accelerator). In 2015 she was featured as an RBC Social Impact Entrepreneur and in 2016, she was selected to represent Manitoba at the National Angel Investment Summit.

With a passion for social impact and a focus on systems change, Suzanne served as Project Director for the Manitoba Open Innovation Challenge, a social innovation project designed to engage Manitobans in the forward-thinking process to address complex societal challenges. The Challenge focused on garnering innovative solutions to improve early childhood literacy and numeracy in Manitoba.Suzanne holds a blue belt in Innovation Engineering, a certificate in Psychology For Digital Behavior Change, as well as certificates in product management and UX Design. She is an avid practitioner of design thinking.