Katrina Paddon advises founders, investors, boards, and executive teams on complex commercial, technology, governance, and AI-related decisions.

Her work is focused on situations where judgment matters: enterprise deals facing procurement or risk scrutiny, negotiations where the real economics are buried in the terms, investment stories that need pressure-testing, leadership teams working through strategic trade-offs, and AI governance questions that require practical oversight not generic policy language.

Over nearly 20 years, Katrina has influenced more than $3B in technology expenditure across corporate, government, startup, and investment environments. She brings experience from both sides of the table giving her a practical understanding of how buyers evaluate risk, how commercial decisions are made, and where promising opportunities can lose momentum.

She is also Co-Founder and Managing Partner of West Coast Angel Network, a venture capital firm focused on broadening diversity access, participation, and capital flow within the startup and investment ecosystem.