After eleven years away from full-time work, Carol Fishman Cohen returned to finance. The job lasted a year. The questions it raised became the work of her life.

A collapsed investment bank gave Carol Fishman Cohen an unexpected exit. Eleven years later, she returned to finance, studied the path back and helped turn the resume gap from a hiring liability into an entry requirement.
For nearly two decades, iRelaunch has argued that a career break is context, not a defect. Its playbook turned an awkward résumé gap into a talent category - and now an acquisition by Akraya is testing whether that category can scale.