Founded in 1999, and with offices in New York, London and Chennai, BoardEx is a wholly owned subsidiary of Euromoney PLC, a member of the FTSE 250 share index.

BoardEx holds in-depth profiles of over one million of the world's business leaders and its proprietary software shows the relationships between and among these individuals.

Additional integration tools include application programming interfaces (APIs), data feeds and Salesforce app.

Its clients include companies and organizations within the banking, legal and professional services, executive search, asset and wealth management, private equity, academic and not-for-profit sectors.

"[5] BoardEx received a boost in clients after the Higgs review on the effectiveness of non-executive directors was released in the UK.

[3] The database contains the name of current and past organizations, positions held and, wherever verifiable, the start and end dates of the association.

Details of board structures, practices, remuneration, diversity, stability and characteristics can be obtained for purposes of academic research and corporate governance.