Samantha Kappagoda, Chief Economist of Risk Economics, Inc. and Independent Director of the Credit Suisse Funds, was invited to speak at the ACCD/Corporate Board Member Directors Forum, which took place in Dallas from March 3-5, 2025.
Samantha participated in the panel Offense Versus Defense: What Is or Should be your AI Strategy?, moderated by Dan Bigman, Editor and Chief Content Officer of Chief Executive Group, publishers of Chief Executive, Corporate Board Member, ChiefExecutive.net, Boardmember.com and StrategicCFO360. Samantha’s fellow panelist was Sheila Bangalore, Board Member at Games Global and Stone Age Holdings.
Since 1998, Corporate Board Member has provided guidance to board directors to enhance their contributions as individual directors and as boards, and strengthen stakeholder trust in the firms that they represent. The stated goal of Corporate Board Member Network is to foster a community of corporate directors and advisors through peer-to-peer networking and educational programs, tools and resources.
Samantha Kappagoda serves as an Independent Director / Trustee, Nominating Committee Chair, and Audit Committee Member of Credit Suisse Funds, which are comprised of closed-end funds (NYSE: DHY and CIK) and open-end funds investing in commodity, high yield and credit strategies. She is also Chief Economist and Co-Founder of Risk Economics®, Visiting Scholar at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU, advising research activities at RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute, and a Member of the Business Board of the Governing Council at the University of Toronto.
About Risk Economics, Inc.
Risk Economics® specializes in economic analysis of risk and liability. It provides advisory services at the intersection of commercial business-process engineering and risk engineering with a particular focus on coupling commercial reinsurance and financial technology, through the rigorous application of agent-based, demographic, and statistical methodologies to microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis. The RiskEcon® client roster is diverse and includes governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, global insurance and reinsurance firms, leading law firms, technology firms, global banking institutions, asset management firms, multinational corporations with interests in natural resources, commodities, and energy, as well as government agencies and regulators. For additional information, please visit https://riskeconomicsinc.com/.
