Private Company Director’s Directors to Watch 2025 highlights 31 significant and diverse directors who have contributed to and will continue to expand ongoing dialogue on board best practices and corporate governance excellence.
Sabrina Hannam
Boardswell, Opal Group
Sabrina Hannam is a CEO who has founded, raised capital for, and led multiple software companies. She architects data analytics software, identifies emerging technologies and positions companies for fast scale and high valuations. As Boardswell’s CEO and chair, Hannam delivers double-digit growth, propelling her “Match” app for boards to number one in the marketspace.
Hannam is an advisory board member of Opal Group. She mentors founding teams to scale rapidly and navigate funding or valuation events. She is credited with leading the second-largest IPO in U.S. history.
An independent mindset helps define real opportunities: “Private companies can embrace an independent mindset from day one. The goal is to activate a new class of independent directors for funders and founders that brings women closer to discerning the high-value companies from the overhyped, navigating the current economic landscape to find the best deals, leveraging access to customers for underestimated founders, influencing which problems get solved and how, getting first look at the newest innovations and reaping substantial financial returns and divert the flow of private board seats from 95% male to something more equitable.”