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Boardwave

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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, Germany, Italy and Spain.[1][2][3]

Boardwave had 2,000 members as of February 2025,[4] with 575 mentors pledging over 4500 hours of pro bono mentoring time. Boardwave’s female founder network included 350+ members across Europe. It has hosted dedicated events, such as Cash not Croissants about funding and scaling.[5]

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.[6]

On 28 September 2023, Boardwave announced Jonathan McKay, Leo Apotheker and Elona Mortimer-Zhika as new board members. They join Phill Robinson, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) at Boardwave, along with Kath Easthope, as co-founder and chief operating officer (COO), and are supported by an advisory committee and team of high calibre founding patrons.[7]

In March 2024, Boardwave launched a whitepaper, authored by Phill Robinson, titled “How the UK & Europe can lead the global software industry by 2034”.[8]

Boardwave officially launched in Italy in May 2024.[9] In September 2024, Boardwave officially launched in Spain at an event with senior Spanish figures in the software industry including Alberto Torres, Senior Advisor at McKinsey and Sarah Harmon, ex-CEO at Sngular.[10]

On the 18th September 2024, Boardwave announced a partnership with You.com, a community for 1,700+ European software leaders, to adoption of AI in the European software industry.[11]

As of February 2024, Boardwave is working to address the AI skills and knowledge gap along with its partner, Mindstone.[12][13]

In December 2024, Boardwave launched a paper alongside the BVCA and Future Governance Forum titled ’Seizing the Scale-Up Moment’.[14]

Charity

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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.

Each year, profit that is surplus to Boardwave's cash flow requirements is donated to medical research at Cure Parkinsons.[15][16] To date Boardwave has donated £250,000 to Cure Parkinson’s, and has helped raise awareness of Parkinson’s by funding the first two series of the popular "Movers & Shakers" podcast, hosted by : Rory Cellan-Jones (also a Boardwave Patron), Jeremy Paxman, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn, Gillian Stacey-Solymar. Boardwave is also promoting the launch of the paperback edition of music legend, Tony King’s book, "The Tastemaker".

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.[17]

Background

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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 80 funding partners.[18]

List of Founding Patrons

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Macaulay, Thomas (2 March 2023). "To challenge big tech, European startups need their own Nasdaq". TNW | Ecosystems. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Creating powerful relationships that aim to transform Europe into a software superpower". Agent3 - Home. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Why Europe's 'lonely' tech entrepreneurs need help". BBC News. 3 July 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  4. ^ Staff, Entrepreneur UK (3 December 2024). "Scaling UK Software Startups Globally with Phill Robinson". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  5. ^ Randall, Kim-Adele (3 July 2024). "The Gender Funding Gap: Understanding the Disparity for Female Founders | Authentic Achievements". Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  6. ^ "If Sunak wants us to be the next Silicon Valley, CEOs need a much stronger community around them". www.managementtoday.co.uk. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  7. ^ Boardwave. "BOARDWAVE APPOINTS ITS FIRST BOARD OF DIRECTORS, AS IT REACHES 1,000 EUROPEAN MEMBERS MILESTONE IN FIRST 18 MONTHS". www.prnewswire.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
  8. ^ Coulter, Martin (27 March 2024). ""Exclusive: Software industry calls for more UK government support". Reuters. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  9. ^ Upliift (4 March 2024). "Boardwave Launch Event in Milan - Upliift". Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  10. ^ "Pensar a lo grande o por qué Europa igualará a Silicon Valley". La Razón (in Spanish). 29 September 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  11. ^ "You.com Announces Partnership with Boardwave To Bring AI-Powered Productivity To The European Software Industry". Yahoo. 18 September 2024. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  12. ^ Wood, Anna. "Boardwave and Mindstone partner to address AI skills and knowledge gap in software". Startups Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  13. ^ Ferretti, Paul (29 February 2024). "To create a masterpiece: Boardwave partners with Mindstone to address the AI skills and knowledge gap in the software industry". Maddyness UK. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  14. ^ Holloway, Charlotte (12 December 2024). "Seizing the scale-up moment". Future Governance Forum. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  15. ^ Murray, Kirsten (17 January 2023). "European Software Industry helps fund research to cure Parkinson's". Cure Parkinson's. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Advancing Health Equity Through The CMS Innovation Center: First Year Progress And What's To Come". Forefront Group. 11 May 2023. doi:10.1377/forefront.20230509.277096. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  17. ^ Cellan-Jones, Rory (18 March 2023). "Movers and Shakers - a Parkinson's podcast". Rory’s Always On Newsletter. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  18. ^ Allen, Patricia (12 December 2022). "Supercharging European software success through community | Interview with Boardwave founder Phill Robinson". EU-Startups. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
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