BOOKING SNAPSHOT
The fast read for bookers.
TOPICS
AI and decision-making, capital formation and growth-stage M&A, leadership and presence under pressure, investor and founder dynamics, high-stakes communication. Particular depth in evidence-based human centered AI, behavioral science and behavior change, voice biomarkers and clinical AI for behavioral health, mental health technology, brain health, consciousness and psychedelic studies, wellness and longevity, and consumer health.
FORMATS
Keynote, fireside chat, panel speaker, panel moderator, host, co-host, emcee, workshop, retreat, Jeffersonian dinner facilitation, virtual and in-person events, broadcast guest, podcast guest.
BEST FOR (CORE)
AI and technology conferences. Investor summits. Executive offsites. Founder communities and angel groups. Women's leadership programs.
ADDITIONAL
Behavioral health and mental wellness convenings. AI policy and governance forums. Boards. global nonprofit councils. Large corporations.
DURATION
20 min TEDx, 45 to 60 min keynote, half-day and full-day workshop, multi-day retreat.
AUDIENCE
Intimate boardroom (12) to in-person events (175 to 2,000+) to virtual events (5,000+ live). Same standard either way.
BASED
San Francisco. London. Milan. Detroit. Travels internationally.
AVAILABILITY
Limited 2026 availability. Currently booking Q3 onward. Press deadlines flagged URGENT.
FEES
Available upon request. Custom pricing based on format, audience, and preparation scope.
RESPONSE
Proposal within five business days. Booking confirmed on signed contract.
CONFIRMED 2026
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Angel Capital Association Summit · Westminster, Colorado · April 2026 (flagship keynote)
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LOGIN · Vilnius · May 2026 (panel)
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EBAN Congress · Vilnius · June 2026 (keynote)
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Go Vilnius investor event · Vilnius · June 2026 (featured speaker)
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LitBAN lunch · Vilnius · June 2026 (featured speaker)
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Psychedelic Awards 2026 · San Francisco · October 10 (speaker)
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Investor Jeffersonian Dinner Series · Human+Tech Week · ongoing (co-convener and facilitator)
POSITIONING
Rare executive credibility across AI, capital, and decision-making under pressure.
Angel Gambino builds, invests, advises, and speaks at the intersection of AI, capital, and human potential. Communication as a practiced discipline, not charisma. Built on somatics, conversation, and behavioral science.
She brings rare credibility across all of it: senior enterprise operating experience, direct AI product and company leadership, investor pattern recognition from 1,000+ startups, and a track record of building and scaling businesses across media, technology, behavioral health, and venture. She has spent years in rooms where the wrong decision cost millions. Usually the signal was visible much earlier. The cost is not the mistake. It is the conversation that no one wanted to have.
Having led BAFTA and BRIT award-winning teams at MTV Networks and the BBC, she has overseen a $1B+ P&L at MTV/Viacom/Paramount, led or participated in $2B+ in exits, and served as former CEO of Sensai and former Chief Product Officer of Ellipsis Health, a voice biomarker company for depression and anxiety screening that piloted with Cigna and Headspace.
Today she is Senior Advisor at PsyMed Ventures across frontier brain health, mental health, and behavioral health. Senior Advisor at Nfluence Partners, focused on mission-driven companies. Board Trustee at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Founder of Angel Club (411 investors in the network, 8,000+ founders FFF newsletter subscribers). Co-convener of the Investor Jeffersonian Dinner Series on Human-Centered AI at Human+Tech Week.
In the AI era, judgment becomes infrastructure.
BY THE NUMBERS
Receipts.
$2B+
IN M&A EXITS DRIVEN ACROSS MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY
$1B+
P&L OPERATOR AT MTV/VIACOM /PARAMOUNT
263k+
TEDX VIEWS AND COUNTING
1,000+
STARTUPS BACKED OR ADVISED
411+
CO-INVESTORS IN ANGEL CLUB
5
BUILT AS FOUNDER OR FOUNDING EXEC
FOR BUREAUS, PRODUCERS, AND PROGRAMMING TEAMS
Most requested.
Updated quarterly. Current programming-cycle snapshot.
TOP THREE TALKS
01 · The lineage talk
Presence: The Human Premium in an AI World
The methodology under everything. Somatic Speaking and the Three-Beat Technique. TEDx Mastering Communication for Real Connection , expanded for boards, executive offsites, and women’s leadership stages. 263k+ views.
02 · The positioning talk
AI: Presence. Trust. Taste.
The three durable assets when AI commoditizes everything else. For AI and technology conferences, executive offsites, founder summits, and boards.
03 · The investor playbook
Built It. Backed It. Exited It.
2026 ACA Angel Investing Summit keynote. An angel’s playbook for liquidity in the age of AI. For founder summits, investor groups, and family offices.
MOST BOOKED FORMATS
45-minute keynote
Main stage. Single-room. The default.
Keynote plus moderated fireside
45-minute keynote followed by 20 to 30 minute fireside or Q&A with the host.
Closed-door facilitation
Board offsite, executive dinner, or Jeffersonian dinner. Twelve seats. Chatham House by default.
Four to nine months typical lead time. Select dates held for long-lead bespoke commissions. International travel from San Francisco, London, Milan, and Detroit.
IN THEIR WORDS
From those who would know.
“When Angel keynoted the ACA Summit, the room took home more than another exit story. She gave investors and founders a working framework for the kind of judgment this moment requires. She has a knack for hearing what the room is not saying out loud, and for asking the questions most people are avoiding. Audiences leave moved, and with something they will use immediately. One investor told me they took six pages of notes during her keynote. That is rare. It is exactly what capital allocation in the AI era demands.”
Marcia Dawood
Chair, SEC Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee Managing Director, Golden Seeds Chair Emeritus, Angel Capital Association
“‘Conviction before consensus.’ That is the phrase every EBAN Congress participant took home from Angel Gambino’s keynote. In Vilnius, she held a room full of seasoned investors completely still, sharing how she backed Detroit when others were writing the city off, driven by alignment with her own values before any financial logic. She spoke about deals that fell apart not because of bad numbers, but because of internal misalignment, and it reframed how I think about due diligence entirely. The moderator had to stop her when she went over time. Nobody in the room minded. By the end, the consensus was that we wanted more.”
Ilan Goldberg
Founder & MD, GoFar Trade Angel Investor, LitBan EBAN Congress Vilnius 2026
“She has helped guide our focus as a company, my leadership as a CEO, and the success of our go-to-market strategy.”
Matt Boerum
CEO and Co-Founder, Audible Reality
“What stood out most was her ability to connect big-picture thinking with hands-on experience across technology, growth, and leadership. Too many advisors speak in theory. Angel speaks from experience.”
Gary Solomon
Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP
“Selecting the flagship Summit keynote is one of the most consequential programming decisions the Angel Capital Association makes each year. Our members are accredited investors with decades of operating and capital experience, and they read through people fast. Angel Gambino delivered. She brought genuine executive and investor credibility, a real respect for where our community actually is in 2026, and a generosity in conversation that lifted the room for the rest of the Summit. The post-event feedback was among the strongest we have received. She is the kind of voice this community needs more of, especially as capital allocation and AI continue to converge.”
Pat Gouhin
Chief Executive Officer, Angel Capital Association
“‘Conviction before consensus.’ Three words Angel Gambino said at LOGIN. Three words that explain every community worth building. What stays with me isn’t just the recognition. It’s the reminder that startup ecosystems can inspire each other across cities, countries, and continents. That’s how communities grow: by sharing experience, challenging each other, and believing that great things can be built wherever founders feel supported and connected.”
Darius Žakaitis
Founder, TechZity (Vilnius) On the LOGIN 2026 panel
“She confidently guided the event from vague vision to successful outcome, leveraging her extensive networks and her outstanding facilitation skills to help us build a strong and engaged community.”
Dr. Karina Alexanyan
Executive Director, Positive Tech Institute
“Direct without being performative. Provocative without being reckless. Practical without losing the larger moral and strategic frame.”
Christy Cunningham
Founder, inCioX. Angel Investor and Strategic Advisor
SIGNATURE TALKS
Five flagship keynotes. One worldview.
Plus seven additional talks and one bespoke commission. Full descriptions and audience outcomes on /speaker.
Flagship 01 · AI: Presence. Trust. Taste.
30 TO 60 MIN KEYNOTE · AI AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCES, EXECUTIVE OFFSITES, FOUNDER SUMMITS
When every company has the same models, the advantage stops being technology and starts being three durable assets: taste in what to build, trust in how to build it, presence in the room when it matters. Built on direct AI-executive experience.
Audiences leave with the three durable assets that survive AI commoditization, and a framework for spotting them in their own teams.
Flagship 02 · Conviction before consensus.
30 TO 60 MIN KEYNOTE, HALF-DAY WORKSHOP, BOARD-LEVEL FACILITATION · EXECUTIVE TEAMS, BOARDS, FOUNDER COHORTS, CEO PEER GROUPS, FAMILY-OFFICE SUMMITS, INVESTOR FORUMS
Most leaders confuse conviction with confidence. They wait for consensus before they commit, then call the result a decision. Real conviction is forming a sharp answer before the room agrees, and earning the room to it. The keynote frames the practice: when consensus is doing the work of conviction and when it is buying cover, how to surface the unsaid disagreement, and how to act when the data is incomplete but the call is yours. Anchored in three decades of operating receipts where the cost of waiting for consensus was real.
Audiences leave with a working practice for forming conviction before the room aligns, and the discipline to act on it when the data is incomplete.
Flagship 03 · The body of the decision.
30 TO 60 MIN KEYNOTE, HALF-DAY WORKSHOP, BOARD-LEVEL FACILITATION · EXECUTIVE TEAMS AND BOARDS, HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP, LONGEVITY CONFERENCES, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONVENINGS, CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS, FRONTIER NEUROSCIENCE GATHERINGS
Most decision frameworks assume the decision-maker is a brain. The neuroscience says otherwise. The regulated nervous system is where judgment actually happens. When the system is regulated, the right call lands clean. When it is dysregulated by an over-stimulated room, pressure, or AI-era information overload, the wrong calls feel reasonable. Anchored in CIIS scholarship, PsyMed advisory work, Ellipsis Health voice biomarker operating experience, and the TEDx methodology stack.
Leaders leave with the pre-room ritual, the pre-decision somatic check, and the after-action regulation practice that distinguishes the leaders who hold their ground from the ones who drift into consensus.
Flagship 04 · Presence: The Human Premium in an AI World · The lineage talk
45 TO 60 MIN KEYNOTE · LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS, EXECUTIVE OFFSITES, WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP SUMMITS · TEDX 263K+ VIEWS
The lineage talk. As AI flattens information advantages, presence becomes the human premium. The capacity to be in the room with full attention, to hold complexity without flinching, to ask the question others avoid. Drawn from TEDx Mastering Communication for Real Connection (263k+ views). Carries Somatic Speaking™ and the Three-Beat Technique™, the methodology stack underneath every other flagship.
Audiences leave with a practiced understanding of why presence is the next premium, and a framework for building it under pressure.
Flagship 05 · Built It. Backed It. Exited It.
45 TO 60 MIN KEYNOTE · ACA ANGEL INVESTING SUMMIT 2026 KEYNOTE · FOUNDER SUMMITS, INVESTOR GROUPS, FAMILY OFFICES
An angel’s playbook for liquidity in the age of AI. Three filters that separate companies that compound from companies that stall. Built from $2B+ in M&A exits, 1,000+ startup deal-flow touchpoints, and the Angel Club allocator network.
Audiences leave with the three-filter framework for evaluating exits in the AI era, and a sharper lens for the rounds they will see next.
ADDITIONAL TALKS
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Be Detroitish: The Case for Place-Based Investing
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Brave Enough to Build: The Inclusive Leadership Operating System
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How to Build a Better Operating System for Judgment
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Consciousness, AI, and the Frontier of Human Health (anchored in neuroscience, clinical evidence, and behavioral health policy)
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Capital Across Cycles: M&A Mastery for the AI Era
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Cold to Connected: The Architecture of Strategic Relationships
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Jeffersonian Dinners for Teams
Bespoke commissions available for once-a-year convenings, board offsites during strategic pivots, or category-defining moments. Six to ten week lead time.
The Right Question
THE NAMED PRACTICE
BIOS
Ready to use.
SHORT BIO (~140 WORDS)
Angel Gambino builds, invests, advises, and speaks at the intersection of AI, capital, and the science of human potential. Former Queen’s Park Rangers footballer and U.S. Women’s National Team tournament manager at the London 2012 Olympics (gold). Having led BAFTA and BRIT award-winning teams at MTV Networks and the BBC and as a 2026 keynote speaker at both the ACA Angel Investing Summit and the EBAN Congress, she has overseen a $1B+ P&L at MTV/Viacom/Paramount, led or participated in $2B+ in exits, and has direct AI-executive experience as former CEO of Sensai and former CPO of Ellipsis Health. Today she is Senior Advisor at PsyMed Ventures and Nfluence Partners, Founder of Angel Club (411 investors in the network, 8,000+ founders), and a fractional Chief Growth Officer. Based between San Francisco, London, Milan, and Detroit.
MEDIUM BIO (~250 WORDS)
Angel Gambino builds, invests, advises, and speaks at the intersection of AI, capital, and the science of human potential. Her work focuses on judgment under pressure: in boardrooms, on stages, and inside the AI-era decisions that shape the next decade. Having led BAFTA and BRIT award-winning teams at MTV Networks and the BBC, she has overseen a $1B+ P&L at MTV/Viacom/Paramount, led or participated in $2B+ in M&A exits, and served as former CEO of Sensai and former Chief Product Officer of Ellipsis Health, a voice biomarker company for depression and anxiety screening that piloted with Cigna and Headspace.
The frameworks come from operating pressure, not observation.
Today she is Senior Advisor at PsyMed Ventures across frontier brain health, mental health, and behavioral health, where she focuses on fundraising and growth. Senior Advisor at Nfluence Partners, focused on mission-driven companies. Board Trustee at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Founder of Angel Club (411 investors in the network, 8,000+ founders). Co-convener of the Investor Jeffersonian Dinner Series on Human-Centered AI at Human+Tech Week. A 2026 keynote speaker at both the ACA Angel Investing Summit and the EBAN Congress. Former Queen’s Park Rangers footballer and U.S. Women’s National Team tournament manager at the London 2012 Olympics (gold).
PREFERRED TITLE LINE
Angel Gambino. Founder and CEO of Angel Club. Senior Advisor to PsyMed Ventures and Nfluence Partners. Keynote Speaker.
PRONUNCIATION
AN-jul Gam-BEE-no · she/her
The frameworks come from operating pressure, not observation.
THE EXECUTIVE SCAR
AI flattens competence theater faster than it flattens competence.
THE NEXT PREMIUM IS THE TEAM THAT CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE
FOR JOURNALISTS AND PRODUCERS
Press toolkit.
Story angles Angel is currently working on. Pull quotes cleared for press use.
CURRENTLY TRACKING
AI and competence theater.
Why hiring, board composition, and executive design shift when information advantages disappear.
The Right Question, as a named practice.
The Right Question is Angel Gambino’s named methodology for surfacing the unstated decision underneath organizational friction. Inside organizations that learn to ask before they answer, and what changes when it lands.
The 2026 capital cycle.
How operator-investors are repricing AI risk, talent, and term sheets across pre-seed through growth.
AI-era judgment as infrastructure.
What changes for boards, founder-investor relationships, and executive teams when judgment becomes the asset.
Human-centered AI in behavioral health.
Operating notes from PsyMed Ventures, Ellipsis Health, and the regulatory frontier of clinical AI.
Presence as the human premium.
Somatic Speaking and behavioral science work showing up in executive offsites, board retreats, and AI conferences.
QUOTE BANK
CURRENTLY TRACKING
Short, attributable, cleared for press and AI search extraction. Attribution: Angel Gambino. Source: as noted, or general press use.
“In the AI era, judgment becomes infrastructure.”
ON THE AI-ERA THESIS
“The next premium is the team that can tell the difference.”
PAIRS WITH THE COMPETENCE-THEATER LINE
“Most rooms already know the answer. They just haven’t said it out loud yet.”
ON BOARDROOMS AND DECISION-MAKING
“Audiences leave moved. And with a framework they will use Monday.”
ON KEYNOTE OUTCOMES
“Bring the math. Wear the hoodie. Skip the Ferrari planter.”
ON TASTE, IN PLAIN LANGUAGE · WIT-PULLED
“AI flattens competence theater faster than it flattens competence.”
ON HIRING, GOVERNANCE, AND EXECUTIVE PRESENCE
“The question most leaders ask isn’t wrong. It’s just not yet the right one.”
ON THE RIGHT QUESTION METHODOLOGY
“The cost is not the mistake. It is the conversation no one wanted to have.”
ON ORGANIZATIONAL RISK AND INCENTIVES
“Presence. Trust. Taste.”
THE BRAND TRIAD
FOR EVENT PRODUCERS
Producer FAQ.
The questions bureaus and producers actually ask.
BOOKING PATHWAYS
Three ways to engage.
Send the structured brief
The fastest path to a tailored proposal. Available at angelgambino.com/speaker#book-brief . Tells Teresa what she needs to know in one pass.
Email Teresa Bigelow
Speaking representative and publicist. info@angelgambino.com. Include URGENT in the subject line for press deadlines.
Bureau or organizer
Standard process: brief, intake call, written proposal within five business days, booking confirmed on signed contract.
ASSETS AND DOWNLOADS
Press-ready.
Headshots, stage stills, environmental portraits, logos and wordmarks, TEDx and stage reels. Canonical asset codes in parentheses map to the Asset Placement Brief v9.0.
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Headshots ZIP (P1, P2 · high-res and web)
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Stage stills ZIP (P3, P4, P8 · TEDx and 2026 keynotes)
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Environmental portraits ZIP (P5, P6, P7)