Cofounder
Paula Fontana
Cofounder, Vela Board Advisors
Founder, board director, and executive working at the intersection of AI governance, board leadership, and enterprise risk.
Areas of focus
Background
Paula is the founder of Eudai AI, an applied AI advisory firm. She is Chief Marketing Officer and a board director at iluminr, where she led the company to recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor in Third-Party Risk Management and inclusion in the Gartner Hype Cycle for Legal, Risk, Compliance and Audit Technologies, and most recently to recognition as a Disruptor in the Chartis Research RiskTech100. She also serves on the board of WorldSafe, and is cohost of Uncharted. Through the Private Directors Association AI Task Force and Research and Standards Council, she contributes to the emerging standards that define what board-level AI oversight looks like. She has been recognized as an Elite 18 CMO for customer-led B2B leadership, and by The Wall Street Journal for her work in venture marketing.