Samantha Kappagoda was a Contributor to NACD Director Essentials: Implementing AI Governance, a follow-on from the NACD 2024 Blue Ribbon Commission Report: Technology Leadership in the Boardroom: Driving Trust and Value.
Samantha Kappagoda’s Contribution to NACD Director Essentials
Samantha’s contributor credit in NACD Director Essentials: Implementing AI Governance marks a significant addition to her published governance thought leadership, placing her perspective alongside NACD’s curated editorial selection of practitioners shaping AI governance guidance for the US director community. Her contribution reflects a consistent body of work across Directors & Boards publications, NACD governance forums, and governance faculty roles as a substantive voice on AI governance implementation at the board level.
Samantha previously was a speaker at NACD Summit 2024 on the panel Blind Spots in the Boardroom, and served as faculty at NACD Master Class on Technology and Innovation Oversight in 2025.
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 DCRO Institute Certificate in Risk Governance®, 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.
