Cofounder
Paula Fontana
Cofounder, Vela Board Advisors
Founder of Eudai AI and Board Director and CMO at iluminr. Serves on the Private Directors Association AI Task Force and Research and Standards Council. Works at the intersection of AI governance, board leadership, and enterprise risk.
Areas of focus
Background
Paula is a board director and Chief Marketing Officer, and the founder of Eudai AI, an applied AI advisory firm. She serves as CMO and 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 is also 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.