BoardEx
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BoardEx is a commercial people-intelligence service that organizes information about executives, directors, organizations, and professional relationships. Its principal function is relationship mapping: the platform identifies paths between a user's contacts and people or companies of interest, using links such as present and former employment, education, and association membership.[1][5].
BoardEx is part of Altrata and is sold as an enterprise product rather than an open public-records database. The company reports coverage of 1.7 million executives at 2.2 million organizations and says that more than 350,000 professionals use the service; these figures are vendor claims rather than independently audited measures.[1]
What It Does
The web platform combines person and organization profiles with a relationship-mapping algorithm. Users can search for an individual, inspect that person's professional connections, and identify possible introduction routes through their own institution's network. BoardEx also provides information about executive movements through alerts, reports, and data feeds.[1]
Datarade classifies BoardEx as a provider of B2B contact and address data and notes that the listing is automatically generated and not managed by BoardEx. That third-party classification captures the dataset's contact-data dimension, although BoardEx itself places greater emphasis on relationship intelligence.[3]
Data and Methodology
BoardEx says that a team of more than 350 analysts researches, verifies, and maintains its profiles using credible public sources. It then applies a proprietary algorithm to the resulting records to identify connections relevant to business development and relationship management.[2] The public pages do not disclose a complete source inventory, matching procedure, error rate, or independent accuracy assessment, so those methodological properties cannot be verified from the reviewed material.
Products
Delivery options listed by BoardEx include a browser-based platform, a Salesforce application, a developer API, and enterprise data feeds. The company also offers Private Equity Network, focused on private-equity firms and portfolio-company leadership, and BoardEx Discovery, a visualization product.[1] No public price schedule appears in the reviewed pages; Datarade likewise states that pricing must be requested from the provider.[3]
Buyers and Use Cases
The company names banking, legal, accounting, consulting, executive-search, asset- and wealth-management, private-equity, corporate, academic, and nonprofit organizations as user sectors.[2] Stated applications include prospect research, referrals, meeting preparation, expert identification, targeted outreach, and monitoring changes in senior leadership.[1]
History and Ownership
BoardEx states that it has provided relationship mapping since 1999.[2] Its ownership has changed: TheStreet acquired BoardEx in November 2014 and sold it in December 2018 as part of a transaction involving TheStreet's business-to-business assets.[4] The current BoardEx site directs account access to Altrata and describes BoardEx as part of that wider people-intelligence group.[1]