Boardwave Breakfast: The Art of Scaling - Lessons from Dedale’s Growth Journey
Thu 12 Feb
|Drouant
Join us for breakfast with Dedale's CEO, Benjamin Forlani to hear practical lessons on scaling a global tech business, aligning teams, and spotting trends in software, AI, and investment.
Time & Place
12 Feb 2026, 08:30 – 10:30 CET
Drouant, 16-18 Rue Gaillon, 75002 Paris, France
About the event
Host: Kath Easthope, CEO and Co-Founder, Boardwave
Speaker:Benjamin Forlani, Founder and CEO, Dedale
Sponsor: H.I. Executive Consulting
Join us for breakfast with Benjamin Forlani, Founder and CEO of Dedale, a fast-scaling strategic intelligence firm supporting leading investors and technology companies across Europe, North America, and Asia.
Before founding Dedale, Benjamin spent over a decade working across strategic due diligence, technology-driven transformation, and investment roles at BCG and Astorg Partners. During this time, he identified a persistent structural challenge: CEOs and investors were making critical decisions in fast-moving tech markets without access to the precise, granular, and timely intelligence they needed. Existing research was too generic; consulting was too slow and too expensive.
Today, Benjamin leads a 150-strong global team covering dozens of software segments and operating seamlessly across Europe and beyond. Dedale’s rapid growth over the past 18 months, including doubling in size, offers a powerful real-world case study in scaling a…