Rae Stott

Rae Stott Co-founder and CEO of Refraction is a dynamic leader, working at the nexus of startups, culture and community. Rae has built a robust foundation in using culture and community to address complex challenges and wicked problems.
Her career began in Australia, where she first built a community and founded a charity to address gaps in the social services ecosystem. She then helped deploy this formula against the failings in disaster response efforts, before turning her attention to technology companies. Her subsequent position as Director of Culture at GoCanvas, helped her prove the hypothesis that culture and community were as valuable in business as they are in addressing social issues.
As CEO at Refraction, Rae has returned to the organization she co-founded over a decade ago to understand how community and culture support the startup ecosystem and economy in post-COVID world. A challenge she relishes.