Tope Awotona

Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward. Tope founded Calendly in 2013 with the vision of simplifying scheduling for everyone without back-and-forth emails. With about 10 million users, huge companies like Ancestry.com, Lyft, Indiana University, La-Z-Boy and Zendesk are among its customers. Prior to starting Calendly From 2012 to 2014, Awotona worked at Dell EMC as an Enterprise Software Sales Rep and Account Manager at a storage company, selling enterprise software systems to large corporations such as Coca-Cola, Aflac, Equifax, and Blue Cross and Shield Awotona . Later, he moved to IBM in Atlanta, where he worked as a Tivoli Software Sales Rep. Tope holds a degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia. He is the recipient of the 2021 Atlanta Business Chronicle Most Admired CEO Award and 2019 Comparably Best CEOs awards. Quote: do things the way they should be done. So they can turn out the way they should turn out.