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Harleen Dhami

Harleen Dhami is a Senior Growth Marketing Specialist for Top Hat. During her tenure at Top Hat, she's interviewed acclaimed educators including Dr. Bryan Dewsbury and Dr. Christopher Emdin. She works to amplify the stories of both faculty and students alike through case studies, blog posts and ebooks. Harleen holds a Master's Degree in Professional Communication from Toronto Metropolitan University. In 2020, she was the recipient of a Gold Quill Award of Merit presented by the International Association of Business Communicators.

  1. Top Hat Co-founder and CEO Named One of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40

    It is Canada's most coveted award for young business leaders.

  2. UBC Faculty of Arts and Top Hat Partner to Expand Access to Higher Education

    This enables 1,100 instructors and 14,000 students to have access to low-cost or free interactive course materials.

  3. Top Hat Hires Chief Product Officer Eran Ben-Ari to Lead Next Wave of Product Innovation and Customer Success

    Ben-Ari will oversee product strategy, development, and expansion, focused on drivingrevenue opportunities.

  4. Top Hat Partners with Unizin Consortium to Bring Affordable and Accessible Digital OER Content to 25 Universities

    The partnership grants educators at member institutions access to Top Hat’s full range of tools.

  5. Top Hat Named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™

    It honours 50 Canadian technology companies with the highest revenue-growth percentage over the four years.

  6. Ohio University and Top Hat Partner to Reduce Textbook Costs for Students

    OHIO students will realize an estimated savings of $500,000 per semester through the successful adoption of OER.

  7. Empower Teachers, Support Students: Top Hat CEO Mike Silagadze

    “Top Hat is providing a tech platform that gives professors a way to adopt open source content at a fraction of the price, or maybe or…

  8. CIX Reveals Its 2017 List of Canada’s Top 20 Most Innovative Companies

    Top Hat has been named as one of the top 20 most innovative tech companies in Canada for 2017, based on factors like product and service…

  9. Mobile Apps Gain Ground Against Handheld Clickers

    For students and instructors, smartphone apps represent the opportunity to consolidate technologies, while at the same time allowing for…

  10. Top Hat Continues 2017 Momentum With New Office in Sydney Australia

    TORONTO–Top Hat, provider of the leading cloud-based teaching platform for higher education, today announced the opening of its…

  11. Top Hat Wins Pauli Award 2017 For Company of the Year

    The 6th annual Pauli Awards recognize members of the Golden Triangle Angel Network, a company that invests in and mentors early-stage…

  12. Top Hat Launches Marketplace to Challenge Textbook Publishers

    As a medium, print is incompatible with the blistering pace of change and new discoveries. Textbooks are outdated as soon as they go to…

  13. Top Hat Puts Two More Features In Their Cap For Back To School

    Top Hat has added Secure Attendance, a next generation attendance platform built right into their app that can tell if a student is truly in…

  14. Top Hat Takes on Textbook Publishers with the Launch of its Content Marketplace

    Top Hat has now launched its content marketplace out of beta. The idea here is to challenge the massive textbook industry that doesn’t…

  15. Top Hat Disrupts HigherEd Content Marketplace

    Top Hat has launched an online marketplace for HigherEd content that provides professors with great tools to develop or assemble course…

  16. Top Hat Raises $9 million CAD To Disrupt Textbook Publishing Industry

    Top Hat has raised $9 million CAD in its Series C follow-on funding from Toronto-based Leaders Fund. The company raised its $29.5 million…

  17. Toronto tech firms seeing more interest from U.S. job seekers — and not just because of Trump

    Last month, Roy Pereira, CEO of Toronto startup zoom.ai, received so many applications for a software engineering position from U.S.-based…

  18. Top Hat appoints Jesper Bendtsen as first chief people officer

    “I’m excited to be joining Top Hat, a Toronto-based startup that has such a clear value proposition,” said Bendtsen. “Talent is a…

  19. Global EdTech Investments And Outlook: 10 EdTech Companies You Should Know About

    Last year, David Bainbridge, CEO of UK-based Knowledgemotion, published an article on TechCrunch titled “Edtech is the Next Fintech.”…

  20. OCE Discovery Panel Says Canadian Gov’t Must Provide “Sustained” Support to AI Industry

    On May 15 and May 16, the Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) hosted OCE Discovery at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to bring together…