Samantha Kappagoda was invited to speak at the Women Corporate Directors Webinar on AI and Technology Risk & Audit Committee Oversight, on March 18, 2025. The panel sought to provide an in-depth overview of board and audit committee oversight of technology risk, and was moderated by Allison Downey, Partner at KPMG. Samantha’s fellow panelists were Sonita Lontoh, Director, Sunrun Inc., TrueBlue Inc., Sway Ventures; and Swami Chandrasekaran, Principal, Head of AI & Data Labs, KPMG.
Samantha’s Contribution as an Audit Committee Member
Samantha Kappagoda’s participation in the WCD webinar on AI and Technology Risk & Audit Committee Oversight illustrates the specific value she brings to audit-focused governance discussions. She approaches AI risk oversight as a practitioner with operating experience in enterprise environments, and now from an active audit committee seat.
About Samantha Kappagoda
Samantha Kappagoda is a board director and technology strategist who brings a distinctive blend of capital markets judgment, AI governance and data strategy expertise to complex, regulated environments. Her boardroom perspective leverages her operating experience — in data, analytics and technology — to navigate emerging opportunities, drive value and mitigate risk.
Samantha currently serves as Board Director, Nominating & Governance Committee Chair and Audit Committee Member at the Credit Suisse Funds, now under UBS (NYSE: UBS), and a Member of the Governing Council Business Board at the University of Toronto. She also serves as Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder of Numerati® Partners LLC, a RiskTech firm, and Visiting Scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
Recognized as a Director to Watch by Directors & Boards magazine, Samantha is an active contributor at governance forums in USA and Canada, addressing AI and data governance, cybersecurity, financial markets and global macroeconomic trends at Corporate Board Member, Independent Directors Council, NACD Summit, NYU Directors’ Academy, Private Directors Association and WGOB Canada. Samantha has been awarded the Certificate in Private Company Governance from the Private Directors Association, and has also completed the Harvard Business School Program Making Corporate Boards More Effective. For additional information, please see Samantha’s biography, recent news and conferences & events.
