Meet Our Patrons | Boardwave

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

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

Federico Leproux

CEO, TeamSystem Group

Franck Cohen

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

Franz-Josef Seidensticker

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

Fred Hessabi

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

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

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

Karen Slatford

Chair Bright Software, Chair Autorek and Chair Zaptic

Léo Apotheker

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

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

Nezahat Gultekin

Independent Board Member, Logo Yazilim

Nic Humphries

Senior Partner & Executive Chair, Hg

Oystein Moan

Executive Chair, VISMA

Pascal Houillon

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

Peter Sweetbaum

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

Rich Waterworth

Founder & Former General Manager, Europe, TikTok

Rod Banner

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

Sherry Coutu CBE

Independent NED Pearson, Standard Life, Raspberry Pi

Shruthi Chindular

NED & Board Member, Access Group & Byte Technology

Simon Walsh

CEO, OneAdvanced

Sir Nick Clegg

General Partner at Hiro Capital | Former President, Global Affairs, Meta | Former UK Deputy PM; leader of the Liberal Democrats; member of Parliament.

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

Trusted and supported by Europe's leading investors and advisors

STRATEGIC Partners

McKinsey & Company

Alliance Partners

Alantra

Albertine

Alpha Advisory

Amazon Web Services

A&O Shearman

ASSOSoftware

Bank of America

Berenberg

Canaccord Genuity Partners

Crosslake

Deloitte

Egon

Farringford Legal

Gazelle Law

GP Bullhound

Heidrick & Struggles

H.I.E.C

HSBC Innovation Banking

IBM

Jamieson

Jefferies

La Fosse

LegalEdge

Liberty Corporate Finance

London Stock Exchange

Mindstone

OC&C

Portolano

Propel

Rothschild & Co

Rothschild & Co Wealth Management

Russell Reynolds Associates

Snowball

Solano Partners

SuperScalers

Swedish Chamber of Commerce for the United Kingdom

Techspace

Teneo

Travers Smith

UBS

VenturePath

West Peak

Wilson Sonsini

INVESTOR Partners

A3c

Advent International

Apax Partners

Ares Management

AshGrove Capital

August Equity

Axiom Equity

Bain Capital

BC Partners

Beringea

BGF

Blackstone

Bridgepoint

Carlyle

CINVEN

Dawn Capital

Five Arrows

FPE

Francisco Partners

Frog Capital

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Hellman & Friedman

H.I.G. Capital

Highland Europe

KKR

Livingbridge

Mercia Ventures

Oakley Capital

Osprey

Oxx

Permira

Rivean Capital

Sixth Street

Skøyen Software

Smedvig Capital

TA Associates

Thoma Bravo

Upliift

Ventech

Verdane

Warburg Pincus

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