Julie Rotuno Named CEO of the Year

Some moments feel big. This one feels earned.

We're beyond proud to share that our CEO, Julie Rotuno, has been named CEO of the Year in the B2B, Agency & Professional Services category, an honor that recognizes women who don't just lead businesses, but build the infrastructure that keeps entire industries moving.

This isn't an award for the loudest voice in the room. It's for the leader who sees the gaps others overlook. Who turns deep expertise into systems that scale. Who builds something powerful not for the spotlight, but for the impact it creates: often behind the scenes, and often without enough credit. Precision and intuition. Strategy and heart. Sound familiar?

Behind the award is CEO School, founded by Suneera Madhani—an entrepreneur who built and scaled a billion-dollar fintech company before channeling that energy into something equally ambitious: helping other women do the same. CEO School is a mentorship-driven community that gives founders access to education, strategic guidance, and hard-won insight from women who are actively in the arena. Not theory. Real experience, shared generously.

Julie received this honor at The Unicorn CEO Summit, where some of today's most dynamic founders, operators, and visionaries gathered to challenge the status quo and redefine what modern leadership actually looks like. To be recognized in that room, among women who are scaling companies, building movements, and rewriting the rules, is not a small thing!

But here's what makes this moment especially meaningful to us: the qualities being celebrated on that stage? We see them in Julie every single day. The clarity she brings to hard decisions. The way she holds strategic thinking and genuine care for people in the same hand. The way she builds—not just for growth, but for longevity, for relationships, for something that actually lasts.

This award puts a name to what we've always known, and we love that the rest of the world is starting to catch up!