Rika Nakazawa

Rika Nakazawa is a senior leader, entrepreneur, investor, board director, and frequent public speaker on technology-powered business transformation and diversity in leadership. She is the Co-founder of BoardSeatMeet Inc. a social impact venture that is diversifying both the board room and C-suite by empowering minority executives to build and leverage social capital with an intelligent orchestration platform.

Trilingual in Japanese, German and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the U.S. initially to attend Princeton University. Rika has since worked internationally for over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, business development, account management, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies-NVIDIA, Sony, Aricent (now Capgemini), Accenture, American Express-and technology ventures. She is a technology industry veteran and has served on multiple venture boards in next­ generation computing and artificial intelligence ecosystems.

Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for advancing women's leadership in governance, technology, and business across industry verticals and global dimensions. While at American Express, Rika launched the West Coast chapter for AMEX's Women's Business Resource Group. She is also passionate about deepening the intersection of analog and digital experiences through transformational innovation and the pursuit of purpose-driven collaboration.

While Rika has authored screenplays registered with the Writer's Guild of America, Dear Chairwoman, is her first book. She plans to follow up with Dear Chair){, in late 2021, featuring letters from racially diverse and LGBTQ board leaders.