Kelly Richdale is an independent Board Director focussing on frontier technologies (AI, quantum, blockchain) and cybersecurity.
She is a Senior Advisor for SandboxAQ (Alphabet's spin off combining AI + Quantum techniques to develop critical advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, and other sectors). She sits on the boards of Barclays UK; Edenred (EPA: EDEN), a global payment services company; and a Swiss health insurer. She is a former Executive Fellow at the World Economic Forum and is a Venture Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners, the European deep technology investor..
Previously Kelly was on the Innovation Council for Innosuisse, the Swiss federal government's agency for technology innovation, as well as on the Swiss executive team for Libra, Meta’s blockchain-based cryptocurrency project.
She served as Scientific Board Member and lecturer at Geneva University’s course on Information Security.
Prior to this Kelly headed the Quantum Safe Security division of ID Quantique SA, a leader in quantum-safe cybersecurity solutions (now IonQ). Previously she co-founded a 3D face biometric company (A4Vision) where she occupied various management and sales & marketing positions prior to its acquisition by Idemia.
Kelly holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University UK, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (ISC)2.
