What Jen does
Jen advises boards and executives on technology. She has held senior technology roles at Genesis Energy and Callaghan Innovation, and worked in the UK for RS Group, one of Europe's largest B2B ecommerce businesses. She now sits on the board of a New Zealand health and safety software company.
Boards, in her words, need "somebody who understands technology" and won't be bluffed. Jen's strength is turning technology into a story a board can back. At RS Group she won sign-off for a major rebuild of a creaking website without a single technical question, by showing the board what customers couldn't find and what that cost.
Today she helps boards and leadership teams govern AI well: protecting their data and IP, finding an executive sponsor, and talking about outcomes in plain words.
What Jen helps with:
- Technology and AI governance at board level
- Making the case for change in terms a board will back
- Getting AI adopted across a business, beyond the early pilots
Working with RIVER
Jen and RIVER work together when boards and executives are ready to move on AI: Jen brings the governance lens and the board-level trust, and RIVER brings the AI built into how the business runs.