Shahrzad Rafati is an Iranian-Canadian[1] chairwoman and CEO of RHEI, formerly BBTV, – a global media company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, which provides services to content creators and media companies.

[2][3][4] Rafati was born 1979 in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada as a teenager.

[6] Rafati also studied French at Université Paris Sorbonne (Paris IV),[7] and is a graduate of the Young Global Leaders Oxford Module: Transformational Leadership at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

[10] She has been a board member of the Vancouver Economic Commission,[11] and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs.

[12] In September 2018, it was announced that Shahrzad was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to represent Canada on the Business Women Leaders task force, which was formed to advise global leaders on issues of women's economic empowerment as part of the G20 Summit.