The people behind EWAI

Amra Waegli

Amra Waegli is the founder and Co-President of European Women in AI (EWAI), a central community where women learn about the latest developments in AI. She is Head of EMEA at Alife Health, a Silicon Valley company building AI for fertility care, and a go-to-market leader with 14+ years of experience scaling AI and tech ventures across Europe and the US.

Her earlier career spans more than a decade in finance and private equity, including Head of Private Equity at Rianta Capital and roles at Sterling Partners, LGT Capital Partners and J.P. Morgan. She has also served on the boards of retail and fashion brands.

Amra holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and an economics degree from the University of Chicago. She is a dual Swiss and US citizen based in Zurich. Her interests include strength training, skiing, non-fiction and meditation.

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Christel (Chris) Beeston-van Nuffel

Christel (Chris) Beeston-van Nuffel is Co-President of European Women in AI (EWAI). She came to AI with a specific question: how can AI take the admin out of our days, so the time it frees goes into real learning, building things that matter, and the people we care about?

She brings two decades of international experience in leading teams and businesses through change, formerly as Business Management Director at S&P Global, where she led strategic planning and execution of business initiatives for a $200M+ global portfolio through the IHS Markit merger.

At EWAI, Chris works from a conviction: the women who learn to use AI well are the ones who’ll teach the next generation to think critically about it.

Chris is Belgian and Swiss. Outside her professional life, she loves food and cooking, art and literature, lifelong learning, and spending time with the people she cares about.

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Wendy Look

Wendy Look is the Vice President at European Women in AI, focusing on community engagement and building out its operations. She joined to make sense of generative AI, and found the best way to learn was swapping real stories with women figuring it out too.

With an MS in Human Factors and over a decade of experience at Google, Wendy bridges people and technology. She has led complex engineering programs and UX research studies on Google Assistant, from running a 200-person early-access tester program to designing a concept study that compared three app designs.

She believes you don’t need to be an AI expert to belong here, just curious. Her approach: understand the problem first, then decide if and how to use AI to solve it.

Wendy is a second-generation Chinese-American from New York. Outside work, she’s climbing, hiking, skiing or snowshoeing in the Alps.

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