About BoardLens

Built with directors, for directors

Team

The people behind BoardLens

Raffaela Rein

Founder & CEO

Raffaela is a tech entrepreneur turned board director, with boards spanning PE-backed scale-ups to publicly listed companies. She also writes The AI Leadership Edge, the newsletter for Board Directors and GPs, with 41,000 followers across Substack and LinkedIn.

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Advisors, board and investors

Brian Walker

Investor & advisor to AI ventures

Senior executive with Fortune-40 firms; senior partner at Accenture and KPMG. Board director and advisor. Frequent author and speaker with Forbes, NACD, PDA and others.

Prof. Dr. Feiyu Xu

University Professor of Industrial AI

Former Global Head of AI at SAP. Supervisory board member at Siemens Energy, Airbus Group (ex), FAZ and ZF Group. Board member at ChainIQ and Zühlke. Advisor to GCORE and Global Neighbours.

Hans Uszkoreit

AI and NLP scientist

Specialising in language and knowledge technologies. Scientific Director at DFKI and Chief AI Advisor to Lenovo. Honorary Professor at TU Berlin, Principal Investigator at the Berlin Big Data Center, and co-founder of several AI startups.

Vanessa Cann

Managing Director, Data & AI Innovation Lead at Accenture

Advising executives on AI ROI and M&A. Co-founder of Nyonic, a deep-tech company building industry-specific language models. Forbes 30 Under 30 and Capital 40 Under 40.

John Markell

Managing Partner at Armentum Partners

Focused on non-dilutive capital raising for technology companies. Seasoned investment banker advising on debt and growth financing. Competitive distance runner.

Media & press

Talks, podcasts and workshops

Where BoardLens and its ideas show up in the boardroom conversation.

Talk

NACD Summit

Raffaela’s TED-style talk, “Will AI Replace the Board, or Redraw the Governance Map?” Her companion article in NACD’s Directorship magazine, “Will AI Replace the Board or Sharpen Its Strategic Edge?”

Read the Directorship article →

Podcast

On Boards Podcast

Raffaela in conversation on how AI, and her new tool BoardLens, will transform board meetings and the work of directors and investors.

Listen to the episode →

Workshop

AI Experience Day

A hands-on workshop where 20 board directors and executives built a personal board of AI challengers to pressure-test the real decisions they’re facing.

See the workshop →

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