Board Intelligence appoints Christopher Tacey-Green as CTO
Board Intelligence, an AI-driven board technology and advisory firm, has named Christopher Tacey-Green as its new chief technology officer, effective immediately. The appointment puts Tacey-Green in charge of the company’s engineering and product development as the London-based fintech pushes deeper into AI-assisted governance.
From Investec to the boardroom tech scene
Tacey-Green joins from Investec, where he served as head of engineering since 2022. He originally moved to the investment banking and wealth management firm in 2019 as architect and lead engineer of payments, after founding ForAI, an AI-powered financial trading intelligence start-up.
In his new role, Tacey-Green and his tech team will “accelerate innovation within the Board Intelligence platform,” according to the company. The firm’s AI tools span the complete reporting cycle, covering agenda planning, report writing, board pack management, minute writing, and meeting preparation.
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He reports directly to chief executive Pippa Begg, succeeding Anders Gröndahl as CTO. Gröndahl has shifted into the newly created position of senior vice president of AI transformation and performance.
A leadership shakeup with an AI focus
The executive reshuffle signals where Board Intelligence intends to concentrate its resources. Gröndahl, who joined the company in 2024 following its acquisition of governance software company TeamEngine, now leads AI and automation strategy. That mandate already produced results last month, when the firm acquired Scandinavian legal technology platform Juristic, marking its expansion into AI-powered legal tech.
Earlier this year, Lloyds Banking Group adopted one of Board Intelligence’s specialist AI agents to support its boardroom activities. The bot gives the lender’s executives insights and guidance on strategic topics including mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis, and cybersecurity.
The company’s positioning is straightforward: it wants to be the default software layer for how corporate boards prepare, deliberate, and document their decisions. Tacey-Green’s background in both fintech engineering and AI-driven trading systems gives him a slightly different lens than the typical enterprise IT leader, and that mix of startup scrappiness and institutional experience is probably why he got the nod.
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Whether that translates into faster product cycles remains to be seen. Board Intelligence has been steadily acquiring rather than building its way into new markets, and the integration work that follows deals like the Juristic purchase often consumes engineering bandwidth in ways that aren’t immediately visible to customers.
For now, the company is keeping its focus on the practical side of governance software. The tools it sells are used by boards that still operate under strict regulatory oversight, so any AI features have to clear a higher bar for accuracy and auditability than consumer-grade chatbots. That’s the environment Tacey-Green is walking into, and it’s a different kind of pressure than building trading algorithms, where speed and pattern recognition matter more than explainability.
Gröndahl’s move to a dedicated AI transformation role suggests the company sees enough runway in automation that it wants a senior executive focused solely on that track. The CTO position, meanwhile, gets someone whose recent work has been about scaling engineering teams at a large financial institution—useful experience for a firm that’s growing through acquisitions and needs to keep its platform stable while folding in new pieces.
