Cofounder
Joanna Ridgway
Cofounder, Vela Board Advisors
Chief Revenue Officer at Cien.ai and member of the PDA AI Task Force. Practitioner's lens on the commercial and strategic dimensions of AI governance.
Areas of focus
Background
Joanna is Chief Revenue Officer at Cien.ai, an AI-native go-to-market analytics platform serving B2B enterprises, management consulting firms, and private equity. Her career spans more than two decades in financial services, including roles as Managing Director and Head of the Southwest Region at Santander Bank, and senior commercial banking and corporate finance roles at JPMorgan, Fifth Third, and Bank of America. She sits on the boards of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, the Jubilee Center, the Texas Lyceum, and the Texas Women’s Foundation Executive Leadership Council, and is a member of the Private Directors Association AI Task Force. She holds a BBA from Rhodes College.