Samantha Kappagoda was featured on AI Strategy in the Corporate Board Member article Real-World, Right-Now AI Strategy, subsequent to speaking at the Directors Forum conference in Dallas earlier in March. Samantha had participated in the panel Offense Versus Defense: What Is or Should be your AI Strategy? moderated by Dan Bigman, Editor and Chief Content Officer of Chief Executive Group, publishers of Chief Executive, Corporate Board Member, ChiefExecutive.net, Boardmember.com and StrategicCFO360. Samantha’s fellow panelist was Sheila Bangalore, Board Member at Games Global and Stone Age Holdings.
Samantha Kappagoda’s Contribution in Corporate Board Member
Samantha’s feature in Corporate Board Member’s Real-World, Right-Now AI Strategy article reflects her engagement as a governance contributor whose perspective on AI strategy, combining board director experience, Chief Data Scientist operating depth, and published thought leadership, is considered substantive by one of the most widely read publications in the corporate director community. Her contribution reframes the offense-defense AI strategy question as a governance design challenge, offering Corporate Board Member’s director audience practical observations for how boards can balance governing AI opportunity and risk.
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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, Samantha is the author of Board Governance of AI & Emerging Technologies, in Directors & Boards magazine. She is an active contributor at governance forums in USA, Canada and UK, addressing AI and data governance, cybersecurity, financial markets and global macroeconomic trends. She has served as faculty at NYU Directors’ Academy, NACD Master Class on Technology and Innovation Oversight and Diligent Institute, and been an invited panelist at conferences including Character of the Corporation, Corporate Board Member, Independent Directors Council, Institute of Directors UK, NACD Summit, Private Directors Association, Society for Corporate Governance 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.
