Shelby Austin is the founder and CEO of Arteria AI Inc., an award-winning FinTech that was incubated and then spun out of the world’s largest consulting firm. Arteria works with large financial institutions around the world providing documentation infrastructure for them to complete and monitor deals with clients by managing their unstructured data. Recently, Arteria was recognized by Gartner as a “Cool Vendor” in AI for Banking, and Arteria was named one of the 100 most promising AI companies in the world by CB Insights – one of only two financial services focused companies.

Shelby was previously the Managing Partner of Growth & Investments and Artificial Intelligence at Deloitte. Shelby had responsibility for the Canadian firm’s inorganic and accelerated growth investments through acquisitions, ventures, incubation and scale-up and asset development activities and its AI and data footprint.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Shelby was the Founder of ATD Legal, a high growth startup which was acquired by Deloitte.

Prior to founding ATD, Shelby was a Partner at a large Bay Street “Seven Sister” law firm where her practice focused on complex corporate and commercial litigation matters.

Shelby is also the recipient of several awards, including, the Risings Stars award given by Lexpert Magazine to Canada’s leading lawyers under 40, and the Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 award given by The Women’s Executive Network (WXN). ATD was also named one of Canada’s Hot 50 companies by Profit Magazine. More recently, Shelby was named part of the FastCase50 for her work as an innovator.