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OBOT Member Profile: Zenbooks founder Eric Saumure is a rising accounting star, but he turned down a major finance role in Mark Carney’s campaign. Here’s why

—As published in the Ottawa Business Journal on July 11, 2025—   Ottawa Business Journal (Mia Jensen)     OTTAWA?—?I’m grateful to have been asked to serve as CFO for Mark?Carney’s federal leadership campaign earlier this year. It’s not every day you get that kind of call. But after a lot of reflection, talking it through with my wife, thinking about our infant son, and weighing where Zenbooks is headed, I decided it wasn’t the right time for me to step away. Since founding Zenbooks only a few years