Signal AI Appoints Sarah Wood to the Board
LONDON and NEW YORK, June 30, 2021 -- Leading entrepreneur Sarah Wood has been appointed as a non-executive Director (NED) to the board of directors of Signal AI, a leading global decision augmentation company transforming how business leaders make decisions.
As one of Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs, and a former board member of Superdry plc, Sarah currently sits on the boards of Tech Nation, City Ventures and The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families.
Sarah has a wealth of experience in scaling companies having co-founded Unruly in 2006, a global video advertising marketplace that was acquired by News Corp in 2015. She also authored bestseller Stepping Up: How to accelerate your leadership potential.
Commenting on the appointment, Sarah said: ““I'm delighted to be joining one of the UK’s fastest growing AI companies, which is rapidly scaling in the US, transforming business decision making with AI, and pioneering the new category of decision augmentation. David and his talented team have a clear vision for the company and it's exciting to be joining at this inflexion point in the company's growth and international expansion."
Wood joins Marks and Spencer Chairman, Archie Norman, former U.K. Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills on Signal AI’s board, alongside advisory board members Chuka Umunna, Jennifer Prosek and former KPMG chairman Simon Collins.
David Benigson, CEO and co-founder of Signal AI, said “Sarah has always been a huge and inspiring part of the tech landscape and has been incredibly successful in both building and scaling innovative and pioneering companies. Sarah brings a wealth of tech and media leadership experience and knowledge, and we are thrilled she is joining us on the Signal AI journey.”
About Signal AI
Signal AI is a leading global decision augmentation company, turning the world’s data into knowledge and empowering business leaders across a range of industries to make informed and confident decisions. 40% of the Fortune 500 including Deloitte, Bank of America and Google use the Signal AI decision augmentation solution for real-time market and media intelligence to uncover trends, risks and opportunities and support critical decision-making.
Signal AI’s brain, named AIQ, comes to understand a decision maker’s context, monitors the world’s data and extracts knowledge from over 5 million news, blog, broadcast and regulatory documents each day and can surface the relationships between companies, people, products and topics as well as other concepts. Trained over time, Signal AI helps businesses and the people who work within them make more informed and confident decisions. https://www.signal-ai.com/
Source: Signal AI
