Deciding what deserves capital at the frontier.
Leesa helps boards, investors and institutions separate technological reality from narrative risk — as an international keynote, conference chair, executive moderator and facilitator of closed-door board and investor sessions.
See the full-length keynotes.
Watch on YouTubeMasters & Robots · The Rise of the Emerging Manager, 2022
Watch on YouTubeMasters & Robots · Friction-Free Economy in a Smart Nation, 2019
Watch on YouTubeNexus Luxembourg 2025 · Beyond AI, main-stage moderator
Watch the reel.
Full reel · 2:13 · stage, moderation & keynote
AI & Deep Tech · 1:00
Governance & Trust · 1:00
A working system, not a talk.
A board-ready method for distinguishing breakthrough from breakaway technologies — and technical reality from narrative risk.
A clear view of why most deep-tech capital is destroyed on mental models, not science — and the shift that prevents it.
A practical framework for allocating patient capital across climate, healthcare and resource security.
A disciplined path from laboratory brilliance to market reality: diligence, syndicates, milestones and governance.
Six talks boards ask for.
Algorithmic Roulette
Machines have become institutional judges. Boards still govern as if judgment were human.
The Digital Transformation of the Investment Process
How data, models and language tools are rewriting how capital finds, judges and funds a company.
Masters vs Robots
The future of work when judgment, not just labour, can be automated.
When She Who Codes Owns the Future
Why the institutions that control the algorithm increasingly control the outcome.
Cyber Risk Governance in an LLM Era
What boards must ask when large language models sit inside every critical decision.
Board Governance in the Age of Machine Judgment
Preserving challenge, accountability and human agency as decision support becomes the decision.
From main stage to closed-door boardroom.
- International keynote
- Conference chair
- Executive moderator
- Closed-door institutional roundtable
- Board masterclass
- Deep-Tech Readiness Diagnostic
- Boards
- Institutional investors
- Private capital
- Sovereign wealth funds
- Family offices
- Technology leaders
- Regulators
- Business schools
The Board Deep-Tech Readiness Diagnostic
The book's frameworks as a scored board instrument — a one-page heat map, three priority exposures, named executive owners, and a 90-day governance agenda. A sample is available for boards considering a session.
Founder & Managing General Partner of R3i, investing in AI and deep technology across climate, health, water and critical infrastructure. Chair of R3i and independent director with 25+ years across capital, technology and regulation — having advised 400+ corporations across 19 industries and delivered 240+ talks across 20+ countries. Author of Algorithmic Roulette.