About
Our Mission
At BoardX, our mission is to create an open ecosystem that augments human and AI collaboration. We believe that by bringing people and cutting-edge machine intelligence together, we can foster more creative, resilient, and effective solutions—no matter the industry or challenge. We start this journey by nurturing a community of contributors who help us iterate and refine our product, ensuring it evolves in response to real-world needs and insights.
Our Vision
We envision a future where technology empowers, rather than replaces, human ingenuity. BoardX aspires to:
- Enhance Collaboration: Unite individuals, teams, and AI in a space where ideas can flow freely and transform into meaningful outcomes.
- Accelerate Innovation: Enable continuous learning, experimentation, and iteration—turning complex problems into opportunities for growth.
- Foster Inclusivity: Welcome diverse voices, backgrounds, and skill sets, making innovation accessible to all.
This vision isn’t just about software—it’s about shaping a culture of openness, empathy, and shared purpose.
Meet the Team
Our team spans multiple disciplines and geographies, each member bringing unique expertise and a shared passion for human-centric innovation.
- Design Thinkers & Strategists: They translate complex challenges into intuitive interfaces and workflows, ensuring BoardX remains accessible and user-friendly.
- Engineers & Developers: They bring BoardX to life, working tirelessly behind the scenes to build a robust, scalable, and secure platform.
- AI Researchers & Data Scientists: They continuously refine the AI-driven capabilities of BoardX, ensuring that machine intelligence meaningfully enhances human creativity and productivity.
- Community Builders & Educators: They connect, support, and empower our growing community, ensuring that feedback loops remain open and that contributors feel heard, valued, and inspired.
By combining these diverse perspectives, we’re creating a space that not only supports the future of work and learning but also actively shapes it.
Core Team
Yanbin (Usam) Shen
Founder & CEO
Usam believes everyone has the creative potential. BoardX is to create a platform to cultivate the creative confidence for individuals and teams. LinkedIn
Nicole Afton
Growth
Explore Product Market Fit, Create Channel and Generate Revenue for BoardX LinkedIn
Wei Rong
Dev Team
As an Tech Lead at BoardX, my work primarily focuses on designing solutions for various AI applications for future or work LinkedIn
Stu Berman
Privacy and Security
BoardX has a bright future embracing AI powered collaboration developing towards a blockchain based system. Web3 brings trust and security to digital applications even as old world web applications are succumbing to fraud and hacking due to their architecture. LinkedIn
Advisors
Terry West
Future of Work Advisor
As a BoardX advisor, I aim to contribute my experience to inspire leadership and foster an insight-led perspective on the future of work.Together, we can unlock unique opportunities to augment human capability, benefiting both creators and users. LinkedIn
Heather Davis
Open Source Advisor
As a lawyer and investor focused on commercial open source licensing, Heather joined BoardX to help with open source licensing and business model strategy. LinkedIn
Matt Mead
Innovation Advisor
BoardX is developing an artificial intelligence based tool to guide human thinking - raising it from being lost in intricate complexities, to guiding and exploiting unrecognized simplicities. I believe this is where beautiful, disruptive innovations will be born. LinkedIn