A credentialthat follows theboard career.
BoardForge is being built for aspiring non-executives, future executive team members, founders building their first board or seeking investment, and the chairs who connect them. A verified credential. A continuously updated profile. Off-market introductions.
The credential layer the board market never had.
Today, every board appointment starts with a CV and a Rolodex. We're building something better — a verified, evidence-backed credential and a private network where the right people find each other.
Every credential is evidence-backed and reviewed before it's issued. The badge means something because the bar is real.
Your credential refreshes as your evidence changes — courses completed, seats taken, outcomes delivered.
Chairs, executives, founders, charities and investors — invited in by design, not by signup. Quality before scale.
Two founders, one search firm, nearly forty years between us.
BoardForge is part of Kennedy McArthur Holdings — a search and advisory business built around long-term relationships with chairs, executives and investors across animal health, financial services and beyond.
A specialist in Animal Health and the One Health ecosystem, with executive search experience spanning scientific, medical, veterinary, commercial, operational and corporate functions. Previously Managing Director, Animal Health at WittKieffer — a top-ten global executive search firm. Before that, Managing Director at a UK life sciences recruitment firm, and part of the leadership team that sold the business to private equity.
Full bio on kennedy-mcarthur.comNearly twenty years in executive search and talent, with leadership roles regionally and globally. Has overseen thousands of STEM hires across regulated industries, and worked closely with investors and executive teams to scale, restructure and strengthen talent functions. First-hand experience of early-stage startup journeys. Combines hands-on commercial delivery with board-level responsibility.
Full bio on kennedy-mcarthur.comWe've placed enough executives, watched enough board appointments go badly, and reviewed enough self-declared "board-ready" profiles to know that the credential layer is the part the market has always lacked. BoardForge is the build.
Common questions.
We're building toward a Summer 2026 launch. Waitlist members get early access ahead of the public release, plus founding-member pricing.
Aspiring non-executive directors, founders building their first board, chairs and trustees who want a serious credential layer, and the investors and search firms who back them. Quality over volume from day one.
There will be a paid membership. Pricing is built around a credential that has real career value — not a freemium subscription. Founding members on the waitlist will get early access to the platform at preferential pricing.
BoardForge is built by people who've been doing this work manually for two decades. Between us, Joe and Stewart have spent twenty-plus years assessing board candidates, sitting with chairs to understand what 'ready' really means, and hearing the same feedback again and again — about the lack of rigour, transparency and access in board appointments. BoardForge codifies that judgement into a platform. Kennedy McArthur — our executive search firm — extends opportunities to BoardForge members as an additional benefit of being credentialed: live searches, off-market introductions, and direct access to chairs we already work with.
Yes. We only use what you give us to contact you about BoardForge. No third-party marketing lists, no resale. Full GDPR compliance at launch.
Join the waitlist above and tell us how you'd like to participate — as a founding member, advisor, chair partner, or pilot customer. We'll respond personally.
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We'll let you know when it's ready and offer founding-member access ahead of public launch.
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