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 is a former Executive Fellow at the World Economic Forum and is a Venture Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners (the European deep technology investor), as well as sitting on the boards of a Swiss insurance company and a French listed Fintech.
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 served for 10 years at ID Quantique SA, the world leader in quantum-safe cybersecurity solutions designed to protect data for financial institutions, enterprises and governments, where she headed the Quantum Safe Security division. Prior to that she founded a 3D face biometric company (A4Vision) which she scled 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. She served on the board and as president of the Swiss chapter of (ISC)2 from 2015-2018.
