Boardwave
Formation2022
FounderPhill Robinson
Websitehttps://www.boardwave.org

Boardwave is a London-based impact-led organisation founded by Phill Robinson in April 2022. Boardwave was established as a community of European software entrepreneurs, Founders and CEOs to enable them to work together to accelerate their business growth and to improve the overall position of Europe as a home for global software companies. It has a launched in the UK , Netherlands, France and Germany.[1][2][3]

Boardwave had 960 members as of August 2023, with 430 mentors pledging over 4500 hours of pro bono mentoring time.

On 10 October 2022, it held the first Boardwave dinner debate in London on the topic of Winning big against Silicon Valley, and 270 members immediately signed up as Boardwave Mentors.[4] Latest data shows that it now has over 850 leaders or CEOs as part of its community.[5][6]

Charity

European Software Leaders; Ceos, Founders, Chairs are eligible to join at no cost. Boardwave offers them a programme of networking, debates, events, mentoring, inspiration. The organisation is pan European, and has run events in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium & Netherlands.

In January 2023, Cure Parkinson's announced that it became an official charity partner of Boardwave.[7] Following this Boardwave has made two donations, each £100,000. It has committed to continue to donate sponsorship capital that is surplus to the cost of running its programmes in any year.[8]

Boardwave supports the Movers & Shakers podcast series which peaked at №3 in the UK podcast charts in March 2023 and is produced by Rory Cellan-Jones, Jeremy Paxman, Mark Mardell, Sir Nicholas Mostyn, Paul Mayhew Archer, and Gillian Lacey-Solymar.[9]

Background

The organisation is backed and financed by international brands, including Advent International, Apax Partners, Bain & Co, Bank of America, Blackstone, General Atlantic, Heidrick & Struggles, Index Ventures, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Bain Consulting and Rothschild & Co. As of 2023, Boardwave has 55 funding partners.[10]

List of Founding Patrons

  • Leo Apotheker, Chair Synchron, ex CEO SAP & HP
  • Nic Humphries Exec Chair, Hg Capital
  • Steve Garnett, ex-Chairperson Salesforce EMEA, Investor
  • Chano Fernandez, ex co-CEO, Workday
  • Stephen Kelly, CEO WANdisco, ex CEO Sage
  • Melissa di Donato, NED Department science innovation and Technology, Supervisory Board Porsche AG
  • Wol Kolade, Managing Partner Livingbridge, Deputy Chair NHS England, Co-Founder 10,000 Black Interns
  • Jonathan McKay, Serial Chair, Advisor & Investor. Chair of Forward Partners & Lafosse
  • Oystein Moan, Executive Chairman of Visma
  • Nick Discombe, Serial Chair & NED, UK Software
  • Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology Writer, Author, ex BBC technology correspondent
  • Adam Hale, Board & Advisory roles around People & Technology
  • Jose Duarte, CEO Infovista, & Non Exec Director  
  • Paul Smith, Chief Commercial Officer, ServiceNow
  • Chris Bayne, CEO, The Access Group
  • Gillian Wilmot CBE, Founder & CEO, Board Mentoring

References

  1. ↑ Macaulay, Thomas (2023-03-02). "To challenge big tech, European startups need their own Nasdaq". TNW | Ecosystems. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  2. ↑ Busvine, Alice (2023-07-06). "Is This The Solution To Get 'Lonely' Europe Out Of Tech Rut?". TechRound. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  3. ↑ "Creating powerful relationships that aim to transform Europe into a software superpower". Agent3 - Home. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  4. ↑ "If Sunak wants us to be the next Silicon Valley, CEOs need a much stronger community around them". www.managementtoday.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  5. ↑ Clawson, Trevor. "Listing In London Is To Get Simpler But Is Streamlined Regulation enough To Attract Tech Scaleups?". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  6. ↑ "Why Europe's 'lonely' tech entrepreneurs need help". BBC News. 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  7. ↑ Murray, Kirsten (2023-01-17). "European Software Industry helps fund research to cure Parkinson's". Cure Parkinson's. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  8. ↑ "Advancing Health Equity Through The CMS Innovation Center: First Year Progress And What's To Come". Forefront Group. 2023-05-11. doi:10.1377/forefront.20230509.277096. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  9. ↑ Cellan-Jones, Rory (2023-03-18). "Movers and Shakers - a Parkinson's podcast". Rory’s Always On Newsletter. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  10. ↑ Allen, Patricia (2022-12-12). "Supercharging European software success through community | Interview with Boardwave founder Phill Robinson". EU-Startups. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
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