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Presence. Trust. Taste.
What compounds when everything else is replaceable.
"Your audience leaves with a decision they could not have made before walking in. Not a feeling. A decision."
Angel Gambino inspires leaders to make better decisions in the age of AI. A BAFTA and BRITS award-winning media executive and 2026 keynote speaker at both the ACA Angel Investing Summit and the EBAN Congress, she has overseen a $1B+ P&L at MTV/Paramount, led or participated in $2B+ in exits, and has direct AI-operator experience as former CEO of Sensai and former CPO of Ellipsis Health. Today: Senior Advisor at Nfluence Partners, Founder of Angel Club (8,000 founders, 400 investors).
From a stage of thousands of founders at SXSW to a private boardroom of twelve Fortune 500 directors. Every talk is
built for the room.
Booking 2026 Q3 onward. Limited availability. Current and past engagements listed below.
BEST FOR
Enterprise leadership, AI and tech conferences, investor summits, founder communities, boards
FORMATS
Keynote, fireside chat, panel, moderator, workshop, retreat
DURATION
20 min TEDx, 45 to 60 min keynote, half- and full-day workshop, multi-day retreat
BASED
San Francisco, London, Detroit. Travels internationally
RESPONSE
Proposal within five business days. Press deadlines flagged URGENT
TRUSTED BY
"Three decades. Global platforms, founder-led companies, keynote stages, and the journalists who call when the story is bigger than the headline."
PRESS, BROADCAST, PRINT, DIGITAL
BBC News · ITV News · Channel 4 News · The Guardian · Financial Times · CNN · CNBC · TIME · WIRED · The Washington Post · Entrepreneur · Crain's Detroit Business · DBusiness · San Francisco Business Times
COMPANIES, OPERATOR AND ADVISOR SEATS
BBC · MTV · Paramount · Napster · Bebo · Westfield · AWS · Amazon · Ford · Castrol · BP · Starcom · Sensai · Ellipsis Health · Nfluence Partners · PsyMed Ventures · Techstars · BarkBox · Ro · CIIS
STAGES, SUMMITS, ACADEMIC
TEDx · ACA Angel Investing Summit · EBAN Congress · Frontier Neuro (un)Conference · Human Tech Week · SXSW · TechCrunch Disrupt · Mobile World Congress · Consumer Electronics Show · Mackinac Policy Conference · Detroit Homecoming · Stanford · Imperial College London · London School of Economics · University of Michigan Ross · Amazon Leadership Summit · BP Leadership Summit
HONORS
BAFTA Award · BRIT Award · WIRED Top 100 (UK)
Selected list. Representative, not exhaustive.
BY THE NUMBERS
E N T E R P R I S E + O P E R A T I N G S C A L E
$2B+
In M&A exits across global media & tech
$1B+
P&L overseen at MTV/Paramount
F O U N D E R + I N V E S T O R C R E D I B I L I T Y
5
Companies built zero-to-one
(founder, co-founder, or founding exec)
1,000+
Startups invested in, mentored,
or advised
A U D I E N C E + P L A T F O R M R E A C H
262k+
TEDx views · Mastering Communication for Real Connection
8,000/400
Founders and Investors in Angel Club
SIGNATURE TALKS
Three flagship keynotes. Four additional talks. Bespoke commissions on request
Angel speaks where capital, technology, and human judgment intersect. Each keynote is customized to the specific audience and leaves participants with frameworks they can apply within the quarter. Formats range from 20-minute TEDx talks and 45 to 60 minute keynotes to half- and full-day workshops, multi-day retreats, and panel moderation.
Flagship Talks
FLAGSHIP 01
AI: Taste, Trust, and Presence.
Best for Enterprise leadership teams, boards, AI and technology conferences
Takeaway How to compete when AI models commoditize and judgment becomes the moat
Formats 30 to 60 min keynote, 90-min workshop
Why Angel Operator, investor, and advisor perspective across AI, M&A, and growth. Direct AI-operator experience as former CEO of Sensai and former CPO of Ellipsis Health
When every company has the same models, the advantage stops being the technology and starts being what Angel calls the three compounding assets: taste, trust, and presence. Draws on $2B+ in exits, $1B+ P&L at MTV/Paramount, 1,000+ startups, and direct AI-operator experience as former CEO of Sensai and former CPO of Ellipsis Health (an AI platform detecting mental-health conditions from voice signal).
FLAGSHIP 02
Presence: The Human Premium in an AI World.
Best for Leadership offsites, executive programs, women's leadership events, TEDx-style stages
Takeaway A practical framework for showing up with alignment, clarity, and conviction in high-stakes moments
Formats 20-min talk, 45-min keynote, half-day workshop
Why Angel Creator of Somatic Speaking and the Three-Beat Technique. TEDx speaker with 262,000+ views. Board Trustee at the California Institute of Integral Studies
When AI can generate language, the premium shifts to presence. Angel teaches leaders to communicate from alignment rather than anxiety using her Somatic Speaking methodology and Three-Beat Technique. Backed by her tenure as CPO of Ellipsis Health and her Board Trustee role at CIIS, the leading academic institution for somatics research. Full methodology at bethevessel.com.
FLAGSHIP 03
Built It. Backed It. Exited It.
Best for Founder communities, angel groups, accelerators, family offices, investor summits
Takeaway What actually earns investor conviction, and where founder-investor alignment breaks down
Formats 45-min keynote, 2-hour masterclass
Why Angel Founder, operator, investor, and advisor across 1,000+ startups. Led or participated in $2B+ in M&A exit
Fundraising is not about pitching harder; it is about earning conviction. Delivered as the 2026 ACA Angel Investing Summit keynote Built It. Backed It. Exited It.: An Angel's Playbook for Liquidity in the Age of AI. Framework: taste, trust, and the right incentives.
Additional talks, customized for specific audiences
04
M&A Mastery: Position, Prepare, Pitch for Acquisition.
For: growth-stage CEOs, boards, corporate development / 45 min keynote, half-day workshop
Successful M&A is built on trust, timing, and story. Angel has led or participated in $2B+ in exits across Napster, Bebo, and global media, and today advises growth-stage companies as Senior Advisor at Nfluence Partners. Live deal-flow perspective, not theoretical frameworks.
Audience walks away with the three conditions every acquirer looks for but few sellers engineer, and how to run a process that creates competitive tension without leaking.
05
Growth That Compounds:
The CGO's Playbook for the AI Era.
For: growth-stage leaders, boards, PE portfolio operators / 45 min keynote, half-day workshop
Most growth plans optimize for the next quarter; the best ones compound across decades. Angel has led growth at every altitude, from day-one startups she founded to Fortune 500 corporations she ran. Live deal-flow context from Nfluence Partners, plus the relationship architecture behind Angel Club.
Audience walks away with a CGO diagnostic for identifying growth debt before it shows up in the numbers, and the three AI growth moves that are working now (plus the three that aren't).
06
Rebuilding Detroit: The Case for Place-Based Investing.
For: civic investors, family offices, corporate venture / 45 min keynote
In 2011 Angel acquired several city blocks in Corktown years before Detroit's comeback narrative took hold and transformed them into triple-bottom-line profitable businesses. In 2018 Ford acquired the site to contribute to its Michigan Central mobility campus. A case study in place-based investing, civic instinct, and getting ahead of a narrative.
Audience walks away with a framework for evaluating place-based opportunities, and what national investors typically miss about local dynamics.Audience walks away with a framework for evaluating place-based opportunities, and what national investors typically miss about local dynamics.
07
Brave Enough to Build: Inclusive Leadership as an Operational Lever.
For: leadership teams, boards, women's leadership forums, global organizations / 45 min keynote
The operational case for inclusion, not the values statement. Angel has built and led businesses across three continents. The data makes the case before she does: BCG/MassChallenge found women-founded startups generate 78 cents per dollar invested vs. 31 cents. Research on neurodiversity from JPMorgan, SAP, Microsoft, and Deloitte shows neurodivergent teams outperform on complex problem-solving and pattern recognition."
Audience walks away with three inclusion practices that measurably improve team decision quality, and the operational moves that made Angel's teams at MTV, AWS, Napster, and Westfield ship differently than their peers.
Bespoke commissions. Built for the challenge or opportunity in your room.
08
A talk written for you.Not adapted from someone else's.
For: organizations with a specific inflection point, board moment, category shift, or once-a-year convening / 30 to 60 min keynote, fireside, workshop
Every talk Angel delivers is tailored to the specific audience. Some are commissioned from scratch. If the room is facing a decision the existing keynotes don't meet, a merger, a funding environment shift, a leadership transition, a category you're defining, a strategic pivot under board pressure, Angel will build the talk around it. Discovery begins with a 60-minute working session with your team and, where relevant, one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders. The deliverable is a keynote that could not have been given to anyone else.
Audience walks away with a framework built for their exact decision, not a translation of someone else's. Lead time: 6 to 10 weeks recommended. Subject to availability.
ON THE STAGE
Where Angel is speaking in 2026.
Where She Has Been
Upcoming · 2026
APRIL 21-23, 2026
Built It. Backed It. Exited It.
An Angel's Playbook for Liquidity in the Age of AI.
Keynote. ACA Angel Investing Summit. Westminster, Colorado.
JUNE 1-2, 2026
[Keynote title to be announced.]
Keynote. EBAN Congress.
Vilnius, Lithuania
JUNE 5, 2026
[Talk title TBA.]
Featured speaker. Frontier Neuro (un)Conference. [City TBA].
Selected Past
T E D X · 2 6 2 K + V I E W S
Mastering Communication for Real Connection.
Somatic Speaking™ methodology.
2025
Human Potential in the Age of AI.
Featured speaker. Human Tech Week. San Francisco, CA.
2 0 2 3 · T H E S S A L O N I K I
From the Pitch to the Boardroom.
Keynote. EBAN Annual Congress.
2 0 2 3
Driving Transformation: From Passenger to Pole Position.
The Detroit story. Starcom corporate leadership.
F E A T U R E D S P E A K E R
Amazon Leadership Summits.
US corporate leadership programs.
A C A D E M I C R E S I D E N C I E S
Imperial College London, London School of Economics.
Guest lectures and invited talks. London.
PREVIOUSLY SPOKEN AT
Stanford · Imperial College London · London School of Economics · University of Michigan Ross School of Business · University of Oregon School of Law · Mackinac Policy Conference · Mobile World Congress · MIP · Consumer Electronic Show · TechCrunch Disrupt · Music Business · SXSW · Human Tech Week · Starcom Leadership Summits · BP Leadership Summits · and corporate leadership programs across North America and Europe
WHY ANGEL
Five reasons to book Angel
Not a professional speaker. A leader who speaks, and who makes the process as
considered as the keynote itself.
01
Operator, Not Commentator
Most speakers analyze the market. Angel has built in it. Founder, co-founder, or foundingexecutive at five venture-backed companies, with senior seats at Napster, Bebo,MTV/Viacom/Paramount, and the BBC. Her AI credibility is earned: former CEO of Sensai,former CPO of Ellipsis Health.
03
Every talk tailored. Some commissioned from scratch.
Angel never delivers the same talk twice. Every keynote is shaped around the organizer's objectives, the room's composition, and the post-event goal. When the moment calls for it, a merger, a funding shift, a board inflection, a category your team is defining, Angel will write an entirely new keynote built around that specific challenge. No recycled deck. This is why conference programmers book her back.
02
Frameworks your audience can deploy by the next quarter
Every keynote ends with a tool the audience can use by Monday morning. Not a feeling. Past audiences have shipped differently, hired differently, and raised differently after a single 45-minute session.
04
Live deal-flow, not retired wisdom.
Angel is still operating: Senior Advisor at Nfluence Partners, fractional Chief Growth Officer, early-stage investor across 1,000+ startups. The examples on stage are from this month, not last decade.
05
Premium experience for organizers.
From first email to final applause, the engagement is staffed and reliable. Proposal within five business days. A named point of contact for the full run of show. Organizers book Angel because the process is as considered as the talk itself.
FROM ANGEL
A note to the organizer reading this.
I do not think of myself as a speaker. I think of myself as a partner for your event. Someone whose job is to make your audience leave with a decision they could not have made before walking in.
Whether you are bringing thousands of founders to SXSW or twelve Fortune 500 directors to a private dinner, I tailor every keynote to your organization's actual goals. I spend time with your team before I ever step on the stage. I never deliver the same talk twice.
If the moment is specific enough, a once-a-year convening, a board offsite during a strategic pivot, a summit you have been building for a year, I will write the talk from scratch. That begins with a working session with your team and, where useful, interviews with the people closest to the decision. The result is a keynote that could not have been delivered to anyone else. You tell me what the room needs to leave the building believing, deciding, or doing differently. I build the rest.
I also never promise a feeling. I promise a framework, one your audience will use long after the applause stops. My test for a good keynote is simple: did the room ship differently on Monday? If not, I have not done my job.
Angel Gambino
SELECTED APPEARANCES
In the press, on the stage,
in the conversation.
“Angel Gambino embodies what the Summit is all about, visionary investors and founders learning from each other.”
— Sarah Dickey, Education & Events Director, Angel Capital Association
“Angel’s track record building successful digital media platform businesses has been vast and deep.”
— Bill Patrizio, President & CEO, Rhapsody International
VIRTUAL & HYBRID
When your audience is on screens, the premium stays the same.
Fully remote
Live-streamed or pre-produced keynote. Angel's team handles broadcast production end-to-end or integrates with your AV partner. Formats 20 to 60 min or half-day workshop.
Hybrid event
Direct-to-camera delivery for remote viewers while holding the room in person. No split energy. Suited to town halls, annual offsites, and investor days with mixed attendance.
Pre-event preparation
Audience research call, run-of-show alignment, technical walkthrough with your AV team. Angel arrives connected to your objectives, not reading from a static deck.
ABOUT ANGEL
Angel Gambino
S H O R T ( ~ 1 4 0 W O R D S )
(also available: Medium 300 words, Long 700 words in the media kit)
Angel Gambino builds, invests, advises, and speaks at the intersection of AI, capital, and human potential. A BAFTA and BRITS award-winning media executive and 2026 keynote speaker at both the ACA Angel Investing Summit and EBAN Congress, she has overseen a $1B+ P&L at MTV/Paramount, led or participated in $2B+ in exits, and has direct AI-operator experience as former CEO of Sensai and former CPO of Ellipsis Health. Today she is Senior Advisor at Nfluence Partners and PsyMed Ventures, Founder of Angel Club (8,000+ founders, 400+ investors), and a fractional Chief Growth Officer. Former Queen’s Park Rangers footballer and U.S. Women’s National Team tournament manager at the 2012 London Olympics (gold).
SIGNATURE LINES
The frames Angel works from
The recurring lines across Angel's talks, writing, and advisory work. Quote freely with attribution. Use as pull quotes, chapter marks, or opening frames.
E N T E R P R I S E + O P E R A T I N G S C A L E
“Presence. Trust. Taste.”
BRAND TAGLINE
“Speaker. Executive. Advisor. Investor.”
IDENTITY · TIGHT FRAMING
“The three compounding assets at the intersection of AI, capital, and human potential.”
POSITIONING LINE
OPERATOR'S FRAMEWORK
“Built it. Backed it. Exited it.”
ACA ANGEL INVESTING SUMMIT 2026 · KEYNOTE
“Taste. Trust. Incentives.”
THE INVESTOR'S OPERATING SYSTEM
THE GENERATIVE AI THESIS
“Extractive AI. Regenerative AI.”
KEYNOTE FRAMING · 2026
“Transforming humanity's future through augmented wellness.”
"REGENERATIVE AI" · 2024 ESSAY
THE CRAFT
“Mastering communication for real connection.”
TEDX · 262K+ VIEWS
QUOTE FREELY WITH ATTRIBUTION
IN HER WORDS
Longer quotable lines
Beyond the eight canonical frames, longer lines Angel has personally authored, grouped by theme. Quote freely with attribution.
ON VENTURES & FOUNDERS
“Investors don't fund decks; they fund teams with specific, testable theories of the world.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
“The deck is the artifact. The thesis is the asset. Most founders prepare the first and hope for the second.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
“Capital doesn't flow to founders who have the answer. It flows to founders who have named the right question, and can show you how they'll answer it.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
ON LEADERSHIP & PRESENCE
“Leaders lose rooms less because their content is wrong and more because their nervous system contradicts their message.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
“Presence is becoming more valuable as polish gets automated.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
“Somatic Speaking™ is the practice of aligning head, heart, and gut before high-stakes conversations.”
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ON PLACE-BASED INVESTING
“Place-based investing is the discipline of betting on a place, not extracting from it.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
“The next decade of AI-era infrastructure capital will reward investors who know the ground.”
ANGEL GAMBINO
MORE THEME S EXPAND AS ANGEL SHIPS NEW CANONICAL LINES
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Direct answers
Invite the right voice into your room.
Keynotes, fireside chats, panel moderation, and custom executive sessions.
Contact Teresa, Angel's speaking representative and publicist, at info@angelgambino.com.
Send event details (date, city, audience size, format). Most inquiries receive a proposal within five business days. Booking confirmed upon signed contract. Speaking engagements are customized; standard range available upon inquiry. Discounted and pro-bono rates considered for mission-aligned nonprofits and academic institutions.