From a professionally trained chef, Kirsten Sutton navigated a significant career pivot to become one of Vancouver’s most celebrated tech execs. With over 30 years’ experience in technology, software development and development operations as well as IT infrastructure and services including cyber security, Kirsten has held executive positions at SAP and Vancity, driving transformational change and developing high performing, engaged teams. Kirsten now operates her IT consulting firm, Better Than a Ham Sandwich Productions, heads The NoW of Work’s Technology Programs helping companies responsibly adopt AI, and is COO & Executive Chef of Yumasoy Foods.

Her experience in the tech sector spans 30 years. But that only tells part of Kirsten’s story.

Apart from being regarded as an energetic, inspiring and authentic leader, Kirsten is a highly engaged community leader: past chair and Governor of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, past co-chair of the Government of BC’s Presidents Group, member of the Government of Canada’s Task Force for Women in the Economy, member of the BC Government’s Provincial Accessibility Committee, chair of the Quantum Algorithms Institute, and director at Science World and Greater Vancouver Realtors.

A recipient of many awards, Kirsten has been recognized as a YWCA Woman of Distinction and received a Business in Vancouver Influential Women in Business award. She is also an in-demand speaker with more than 35 engagements a year.