Leadership Team

Leadership Team

57 Sec

Razor Suleman

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Achievers

5 Things You Need to Know About Razor

  • He is a serial entrepreneur who started his first business at 15
  • He loves to learn; graduated from WLU’s School of Business and MIT’s Entrepreneurial Masters Program.
  • He is completely unemployable. Fortunately he’s a great entrepreneur and has won BDC’s Entrepreneur of the Year.
  • He is passionate about leaving the world a little better than he found it through the Achievers mission and charity work.
  • He has led Achievers to be recognized as a top employer and fastest growing company in North America.

Fun Fact: He’s often seen wearing Levis jeans, drinking Cosmos in public and is madly in love with his wife Kari.

51 Sec

Aris Zakinthinos, Ph.D.

Chief Technology Officer

5 Things You Need to Know About Aris

  • He is committed to lifelong learning. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and completed post-doctoral work at Cambridge University.
  • He has a passion for technology and was a teacher before entering the corporate world.
  • He doesn’t like problems but loves to solve them.
  • He specializes in building high performing, scalable development organizations.
  • Loves the business side of technology.

Fun Fact: He is an avid woodworker and his favorite expression is, “There’s no monopoly on good ideas”, and he judges dance competitions at Achievers retreats.

78 Sec

David Brennan, C.A.

Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer

5 Things You Need To Know About David

  • He is the proud father of two daughters, Sarah & Julie, and has been married to his wife, Alison, for over 21 years.
  • He graduated from the University of Prince Edward Island in 1986 and earned his Chartered Accounting designation in 1988, which means he’s been in the workforce longer than a number of the employees at Achievers have been alive.
  • He has been an executive at large organizations such as Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He has also has been part of a number of high growth companies, such as, PixStream Incorporated (acquired by Cisco Systems).
  • He loves working with passionate & crazy entrepreneurs (insert Razor’s name here.) Despite being a Baby Boomer, he believes that a paycheck is not a thank you and timely recognition is free and has an infinite ROI.

Fun Fact: He won the 2010 MIF No Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament in Las Vegas after placing in the money in two of the last six years.