Sabrina Hannam

CEO and Board Chair

Sabrina Hannam’s career is anything but ordinary. She is a high-octane executive and award-winning thought leader who considers herself fortunate to have advised some of the world’s brightest minds in the financial, sports, and technology industries. Her advice and business strategies are regarded as the stamp of excellence in business transformation today.

Sabrina is CEO & Board Chair of Boardswell, a B2B technology enabled marketplace startup that leverages proprietary technology to successfully match multicultural candidates for private and public board roles to diversify America's corporation boards by 30% by 2030. Sabrina creates value by leveraging her network to finance, grow and diversify businesses. In her concurrent role, as Chief Corporate Development Officer at a technology startup with unicorn status of $1.5B, she created the Environment, Social, and Governance that green-lighted $125 million in Series C financing from SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

Sabrina’s expertise in mergers and acquisitions, IPO preparation, divestitures, and spin-offs has proven invaluable in her Chairman of the Board role at Boardswell. Sabrina leads compensation strategy and equity award distribution as Compensation Committee Chair, advises on financial gap analysis as an Audit Committee Member and conducts search and evaluation as a Nomination & Governance Committee Member.

Prior to these roles, Sabrina advised the Chairman of the Board of Barclays Center—an 80% stakeholder in the Brooklyn Nets—on the feasibility and revenue potential of a separate sports and entertainment company after he exited his role as Barclays’ Chairman.

Sabrina’s career spans 20+ years working in multiple verticals worldwide, from Europe to the United States. She is credited with taking 5 private companies public and leading the second-largest IPO in U.S. history, a $3.2B endeavor.

A well-respected thought leader, Sabrina travels the U.S. as an invited speaker and lecturer. She currently serves as lecturer in corporation finance at Columbia University Graduate School of Professional Studies and a guest lecturer to MBA students at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Sabrina earned her Juris Doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was a Juris Doctorate candidate at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. A consummate learner, she continued her professional development at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, earning a certificate in business and public policy.