Louise Hill

Founder & Executive Chair, GoHenry

Louise Hill, financial education campaigner and Founder of GoHenry - the money app helping kids learn to earn, save, spend and invest. Louise has built the business from the ground up, from launching GoHenry in the UK in 2012, expanding to the US in 2018, then acquiring French Fintech Pixpay in 2022, followed by the merger with US Fintech Acorns in 2023.

Louise is a passionate advocate for financial education, campaigning tirelessly to make the subject compulsory in all schools starting from primary age. Her expertise in kids' banking was recognised when she appeared as an expert judge on The Apprentice (Series 19).

Keen to nurture UK businesses, Louise works to support several UK-based start-ups and is part of Innovate Finance's Unicorn Council for UK FinTech (UCFT), driving growth in the UK FinTech sector, as well as a Board Advisor for The Payments Association. She is also a huge supporter of women in business, regularly mentoring female founders to drive cultural change around female leadership.

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Boardwave Patrons are the experienced leaders who have helped define European tech in their respective roles and fields. They've spent careers building successful businesses. Now they're helping the next generation scale faster.

Adam Warby

Chair, Ocado Group, Heidrick & Struggles; Non-Exec Director VISMA

Ajaz Ahmed

Founder, Studio.One ; Founder AKQA

Angie Gifford

Technology & Strategy Advisor for Goldman Sachs Portfolio Companies; Formerly Vice President EMEA, Meta; Supervisory Board Member, TUI, Rothschild & Co
Germany

Chano Fernandez

Co-CEO, Klaviyo; Former Co-CEO eightfold and Workday

Chris Bayne

CEO, The Access Group

Dawn Marriott

Serial Exec Chair, Geomartikk, team.blue,Kinapse; Former Partner Hg, Joint COO Capita

Elona Mortimer-Zhika

Chair, NED, Investor, Mentor; Former CEO IRIS Software Group

Emma Sinclair MBE

CEO, EnterpriseAlumni, Business Journalist - The Telegraph; former G7 & Unicef Advisor

Erin Platts

CEO, Octopus Ventures; Former CEO HSBC Innovation Bank, Silicon Valley Bank

Esther Kerstholt

Creator Boardwave Exec Coaching Programme, Co-Founder Aberkyn; C-Suite Exec Coaching & Leadershiip Development
Netherlands

Federico Leproux

CEO, TeamSystem Group

Franck Cohen

Venture Partner & Board Advisor; Chairman GoCardless,CYE,Geektime
France

Franz-Josef Seidensticker

Board Member & Investor; former Chair proAlpha, Wittur Group & Board Member, BAIN & Co
Germany

Fred Hessabi

Investor, Advisor, Board Member; Strategic Advisor C3.ai, NED Intescia
France

Gavin Patterson

NED, Advisor & Investor; Chair Kraken, Kahoot! NED Ocado; Former President Salesforce WW, CEO BT PLC

Gillian Wilmot CBE

Chair, ZOO Digital Group; formerly MD, Royal Mail; NED, Admiral Group plc; NED, Nisa Retail

James Bennet MBE

Former Partner EY

Jean-Philippe Courtois

President & Co-founder, Live for Good; Former President, Microsoft Corp
France

Jean-Pierre Saad

Managing Partner, CVC

Jonathan McKay

Investor & Chairman, Chair Move.ai & Driftrock; Non Executive Director, Boardwave

Jose Duarte

Chairman & Investor; Chair proALPHA, Hallo, Tax Systems
Portugal

Karen Slatford

Chair Bright Software, Chair Autorek and Chair Zaptic

Léo Apotheker

Chairman; Syncron, Eudonet, Harvest; Former CEO, SAP & HP; Boardwave NED
Switzerland

Louise Hill

Founder & Executive Chair, GoHenry

Martina King

Board Chair, Luminance; former CEO Featurespace

Mattia Mor

Entrepreneur & Producer, Founder & CEO Emotion Network; former Member Italian Parliament, Sr Vice President Alibaba Europe (Mei.com, Lazada)

Maurizio Carli

Board Member, Temenos & Board International; former NED TIM, EVP WW VMware

Melissa Di Donato

CEO and Chair, Kyriba; NED, Porsche AG, iNED JP Morgan (Europe) Ltd; Former CEO SUSE, Board Member DSIT

Michel Akkermans

Serial Entrepreneur, Private Investor, Advisor and Board Member
Belgium

Nezahat Gultekin

Independent Board Member, Logo Yazilim
Turkey

Nic Humphries

Senior Partner & Executive Chair, Hg

Oystein Moan

Executive Chair, VISMA
Norway

Pascal Houillon

Board Member, Volta Software; formerly, President and CEO, Cegid
France

Peter Sweetbaum

Chair, Focus Group; formerly CEO, Ethixbase360; CEO, Content+Cloud

Rich Waterworth

Founder & Former General Manager, Europe, TikTok

Rod Banner

CEO, 3LA

Rory Cellan-Jones

Technology Writer, Podcast & Consultant; Author & ex-BBC Technology Correspondent

Sabine Bendiek

Plural Chairperson & NED; Sensio, Suse, VISTRA, Schaeffler; Former Chief People Officer SAP, Managing Director, Microsoft GmbH
Germany

Sherry Coutu CBE

Independent NED Pearson, Standard Life, Raspberry Pi

Shruthi Chindular

NED & Board Member, Access Group & Byte Technology

Simon Walsh

CEO, OneAdvanced

Stephane Kurgan

Venture Partner, Index Ventures, Founder Queen, former COO King (Candy Crush)

Stephen Kelly

Company Builder & Entrepreneur, Angel Investor & Advisor; CEO Cirata, Former CEO Sage

Steve Garnett

Angel Investor & Board Member; former President & Chair Salesforce Europe

Vincenzo Esposito

CEO, Microsoft Italy

Vin Murria, OBE

Chair, CEO, Founder, NED & Investor; Softcat, Bunzl, ADVT, Molten Ventures

Wol Kolade

Managing Partner, Livingbridge; Deputy Chair, NHS England; Co-Founder, 10,000 Black Interns

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