Transatlantic entrepreneur turned investor living in and loving Europe. 
20+ years as an entrepreneur and VC. 
Passionate about innovation, technology, and startups.
Specialties: VC, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Deeptech.

Michael Jackson

"Degree of difficulty counts in the Olympics, it doesn't count in business. You don't get any extra points for the fact that something is very hard to do. So you might as well just step over one-foot bars instead of trying to jump over seven-foot bars."

Great point. You usually don't get rewarded more for doing the complicated thing in business, but many instinctively choose the more difficult path over the less so. You gotta love Buffett.

Michael Jackson 🦡

Too many in Europe have forgotten that tradeoffs are a real thing that grownups have to deal with. 

https://lnkd.in/exAV4awv

Science...but it's pop-punk. 👩‍🔬🤘 

https://lnkd.in/gwAZXJhE

Cool video here from Marques Brownlee and the Epic Spaceman. Shrink down and explore an Apple M5 computer chip. Great watch for anyone into semiconductors, transistors, and tech history.

Hooray for technology! Hooray for science! 👩‍🔬

“I think your experience of the world is largely a shoring up against the unpleasant truth that the world doesn’t know you’re here.” - Cormac McCarthy, ‘Stella Maris’.

Image by John Haig of an American Bison in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park. 🦬 

Another gem from McCarthy for good measure, this time from ‘The Passenger’: “You would give up your dreams in order to escape your nightmares and I would not. I think it's a bad bargain.”

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Amy Shelver

United Nations Human Rights

Driving support for a more digital, more innovative, data-led OHCHR, delivering insights to save lives, protect humans everywhere, and uphold human rights. How? By unlocking the inherent value of data, digital technology, innovation, foresight, and behavioural science for more effective and impactful human rights work. Here I lead digital innovation product management and strategic engagement for OHCHR’s Innovation and Analytics Hub, where I focus on AI applications for human rights monitoring, civic space protection, crisis resilience, and partnerships for progress.

Programme Management Officer - Innovation & Analytics Hub

Briefmapp

Briefmapp is AI-powered briefing software for creative freelancers, agencies and their clients. We are a female-founded company delivering software and a mobile application built for the massive $350-billion and growing AdTech, MarTech, and CreaTech industries. 

We’re lined up to serve the $4-trillion remote, freelance economy as it becomes the future of work. Our mission is to provide digital tools and technology for people working anywhere to deliver creative products and solutions everywhere.  

Our curated creative marketplace, BriefMe, connects clients who are serious about the work they’re briefing in with talented creatives who deliver. 

Check us out 👉 www.briefmapp.com

Founder, CEO

Economic Modelling Academy

Strategic Advisor

South African Cultural Observatory

As Head of Research Dissemination and Partnerships Strategy at the South African Cultural Observatory (SACO), I'm entrusted with driving our mission to shape the cultural and sport research landscape and build a creative, moving Mzansi. I create, implement, and fine-tune initiatives that amplify SACO's research impact and strategies.

▪️ Research dissemination: Crafting strategies to ensure research insights reach audiences, driving policy development and SACO's recognition as a research hub.

▪️ Content excellence: Overseeing meticulous research content development, ensuring accuracy and relevance for diverse stakeholders.

▪️ Partnership engagement: Nurturing partnerships at local, national, and global levels to magnify SACO's research reach and relevance.

▪️ Global partnerships: Spearheading strategic global partnerships, broadening SACO's international presence and enabling knowledge exchange.

▪️ Knowledge exchange: Facilitating knowledge transfer through workshops, conferences, and capacity-building initiatives, amplifying SACO's research impact.

I am committed to shaping connections, driving research impact, and establishing SACO as a premier think tank for cultural and sport research excellence.

Strategic advisor, senior researcher

Hogarth

Project managing and caretaking production and management of major multi-region, multi-language, multi-bottle, multi-product EU advertising campaign for a globally renowned beverage company.

Project Manager

COOKO

Helping drive a supply and value chain revolution, starting with cacao and using a digital click. On a mission to change the cacao industry for good, for good! www.cooko.co

Strategic outreach and communications

Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD)

2021 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) honoree in the top 40 under 40 in politics and governance category; and part of the global network elevating the African diaspora and black excellence.

Honoree

UNCTAD

◾ Essentially my role is ensuring UNCTAD’s message of #ProsperityForAll is delivered on all available owned, shared, paid for, and earned channels for maximum impact.
◾ Leading on key communications campaigns, projects, and strategy with a special focus on digital communications.
◾ Development of cross-channel, multi-media content that tells the important development and trade stories of our time.
◾ Working with organizational leadership, stakeholders, and partners to deliver breakthrough communications events and messages. 
◾ Planning strategic interventions for crisis and reputation management.
◾ Responsible for overall digital brand custodianship and digital reputation management, and ensuring oversight and application of social media policy & governance standards.

Public Information Officer: Digital brand, campaigns

◾ Responsible for delivering UNCTAD’s digital content and leading on digital strategy, campaigns, and outreach for the organization and with partner agencies, donors, and stakeholders.
◾ Distilling complex information into digestible nuggets for digital channels, that retain meaning but reach many. 
◾ Using social media as a tool for development communications and strategic, where possible human, storytelling.
◾ Building a social media ecosystem that supports brand and key message delivery, authentic conversations, and real engagement and debate. 
◾ Production and dissemination of all multi-media content for social media & digital channels. 
◾ Maintaining a finger-on-the-pulse of digital media trends and ensuring their application if viable for the organization. 
◾ Measuring, monitoring, and analyzing digital metrics to improve, do better, communicate better.
◾ Providing strategic guidance on digital communications. 
◾ Primary social media focal point for UNCTAD in the wider UN family.

Public Information Officer: Social and digital lead

◾ Led a strategic project to reshape and reposition UNCTAD’s Creative Economy Programme. This was achieved through both a new report on trade in creative goods and services and upgraded digital communications channels for the programme. 
◾ Co-author of the global 2018 UNCTAD Creative Economy Outlook Report.
◾ Played a key role in the development of the analysis of the statistical creative goods and services trade data that informed the report.

Associate Economic Affairs Officer

Founder Institute Berlin

Alumni

◾ Brought on to project manage a three-pronged suite of deliverables including, an international creative economy conference, a special edition for the African Economic and Finance journal, and a growth strategy for the South African film industry, “Toward a Sollywood”, for the National Department of Arts and Culture.

Strategic Research Associate

Amy is a respected researcher, innovator and communicator. Her experience spans marketing agency, independent, corporate, and international roles in both dimensions. She holds domain expertise in the creative and digital economies; artistic rights and media; trade and development; public health and HIV/AIDS; and cities and entrepreneurship; and has degrees in development studies, media studies, TV journalism, anthropology, and psychology.

She has worked for more than 18 years on major media production and communications projects, campaigns, and strategies to drive narrative change, tell compelling stories, influence policy and opinion, and manage crises and reputation.  She is also a seasoned senior researcher and project manager, conducting extensive research projects and reports on the creative and digital economies, entrepreneurship, & socio-economic development. 

She is currently at UN Human Rights driving innovation in the human rights ecosystem. Between 2018-2022, she headed the UN trade body’s digital channels and global multimedia campaigns in Geneva, profiling UNCTAD’s trade, research and socio-economic development work on digital channels and communicating how stronger trade policy can support economic growth in developing nations. She is also co-author of UNCTAD’s 2018 Creative Economy Report.  Prior to UNCTAD, she worked at the UN Secretariat in New York. 

Over the last decade she has also served in key marketing, communications, research and strategy roles for the South African Cultural Observatory most recently leading the delivery of its Research Agenda. She conducted research on artificial intelligence’s impact on the creative industries; and sectoral research on film, TV and animation; women, youth and skills; and the work dimensions of the 4IR. 

In the first decade of her career, Amy was a journalist, editor, and consulted widely on development communications projects. Later she worked in public relations, marketing and ad agencies, leading teams and the delivery of continental and South African campaigns for top corporates, eg. BankServAfrica, FIFA, Ford, Experian, Woolworths.

On the side, she runs her own online gallery/publishing project, Onomatopoeia Poetry; and an idea stage start-up, Briefmapp. Amy is a published poet. She considers herself a global citizen with local reach in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Geneva, New York, and Berlin. She is an advocate for youth and women. She’s also obsessed with film, football, yoga, news, travel, culture and cityscapes.

Briefmapp is briefing software for creative freelancers, agencies and their clients. We are a female-founded company delivering software and a mobile application built for the massive $350-billion and growing AdTech, MarTech, and CreaTech industries. 

We’re lined up to serve the $4-trillion remote, freelance economy as it becomes the future of work. Our mission is to provide digital tools and technology for people working anywhere to deliver creative products and solutions everywhere.  

Our curated creative marketplace, BriefMe, connects clients who are serious about the work they’re briefing in with talented creatives who deliver. 

Check us out 👉 www.briefmapp.com

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