Laurie Clark

Founder & CEO, Onyen Corporation

FintechTorontoOn TechTO stages since 2018

Laurie Clark is the founder and CEO of Onyen Corporation and the founder of CanChek, an anti-money-laundering system, and the Smarten Up Institute, which trains Canadian investment professionals. She opened the Toronto stock market for Smarten Up in August 2018, and told TechTO the same year how a career of failures produced the businesses that worked.

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Laurie Clarke of Gitti presents Failures That Fed My Success

TechTO · September 2018

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Quick answers

What companies has Laurie Clark founded?

Onyen Corporation, CanChek and the Smarten Up Institute. She has said three of her companies have exited successfully.

What is the Smarten Up Institute?

A Toronto training provider for financial services — compliance, project management and securities proficiency courses for investment professionals and their support staff.

What was her TechTO talk about?

Failures that fed her success: leaving home to study, an unfinished degree finished years later, a career that ran through Korea, IBM and a data business sold to ADP, and what each setback taught her.

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