Marisa Monteiro Borsboom, upon completing a 5 year law degree, she was admitted to the bar association of Portugal after completing a 2 year program, which she passed with honours, beginning her career in 2004 and practicing until the present. Since 2011 she has split her time and activities between the Netherlands and Portugal, continuing to be a fully registered advogada. 

Marisa is a legal entrepreneur and a pioneer of legal innovation, having founded MQM Legal Center in the Netherlands and the Institute for Legal Innovation and Technology, Inov@legal, in Portugal. A trailblazer that fosters her creativity and input, she actively participates in many communities and organisations. She is currently the Vice President of ELTA, an organization which she has been a member of since 2016 and has come to be the ambassador for Portugal and the founder of the Portuguese ELTA chapter. 

She is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion, and a passionate learner and trainer that has taken her to impulsively start the ELTA women in legal tech group and ELTA academy. 

She compliments her career with humanism and Humanity of Things Agency, and business, with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Netherlands Portugal as her wider career.