Elena G

Serial entrepreneur and venture builder with 18+ years of experience taking ideas from opportunity identification through company launch and early-stage growth. Personally founded and launched five operating ventures, from market thesis and business model design through go-to-market, team build, and product shipping, spanning AI/generative tooling, consumer mobile, impact investment, and creative media. Skilled at spotting whitespace, structuring de-risking processes, designing investor-grade business models, recruiting founding teams and venture leaders, and mentoring them through early growth.

Built and led cross-disciplinary teams and established a specialist network of operators, scientists, engineers, investors and advisors activated to accelerate company creation.

Founder & Principal Venture Strategist at DOVENTURES (2022-01 – Present)

Venture advisory and co-creation studio helping entrepreneurs and enterprises move ideas from hypothesis to market scale using structured de-risking and value-creation methodology.

• Built Venture Factory AI, a proprietary generative AI engine producing investor-grade venture strategies, market analyses and business models, used to accelerate opportunity identification and company design.
• Develops venture theses, business models and new company concepts; evaluates opportunities through market research, commercial validation and business case development.
• Applies disciplined de-risking methodology: stress-tests hypotheses against market data, customer evidence and competitive landscape before recommending capital or resource allocation.
• Builds and activates a global specialist network on demand: security auditors, scientists, engineers, legal advisers, marketing strategists and domain specialists.
• Advises founders and enterprise leaders on AI adoption strategy and emerging-technology integration roadmaps.

Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Magnetic Core (2019-01 – Present)

Applied interdisciplinary R&D and deep-tech product development for global enterprise and government clients, requiring continuous market intelligence, competitive analysis and technology strategy advisory.

• Co-founded and built a deep-tech R&D and product venture delivering applied interdisciplinary research and product development for enterprise and government clients, including Oceanco, government blockchain infrastructure programmes and financial institutions.
• Defined full product lifecycles across ML, DLT/blockchain and emerging-tech verticals, from market hypothesis through validation, prototyping and go-to-market execution.
• Built and led teams of 10+ senior researchers, engineers, designers and strategists; established Agile R&D processes from scratch in multicultural global environments.
• Created external research partnerships with academic institutions and sector leaders to validate emerging technology hypotheses; integrated AI-powered research and analysis from 2022.

Founder — Where The Wild Love Is (WTWLI) at WTWLI B.V. (2022-01 – Present)

The world's first meditation app combining wildlife generative art, biodiverse soundscapes and neuroscience, live on iOS & Android across global markets.

• Founded and launched, took the product from moonshot hypothesis to shipped consumer application.
• Validated research partnerships with neuroscientists and conservationists; built a global subscription business and recruited a cross-disciplinary founding team of sound engineers, generative artists, neuroscientists and mobile developers.
• Deployed generative AI for dynamic content production.

Founder & CEO — Wild Around at Wild Around (2022-01 – Present)

Impact investment vehicle and advisory, helping wildlife conservation technology to become products with impact.

• Founded an impact investment vehicle and advisory.
• Launched 5 projects, impact across 175 countries and regions.
• Maintains a broad network of conservation NGOs, institutional investors and technology innovators.

Founder & Film Director at Ubumuntu Production Group (2023-01 – Present)

Independent cinematic production company, the storytelling layer of the venture portfolio, translating complex narratives into Hollywood-quality film and commercial content.

• Founded an independent cinematic production company.
• Established the Shared Intelligence AI Lab, an AI-augmented production environment integrating generative AI across scripting, visual ideation, sound design and post-production.
• Wrote, directed and produced Sweet Cherries Ahead, a feature film that premiered sold-out at Boom Chicago Amsterdam (listed on IMDb), plus the wildlife documentary Hi (2025).

Managing Director / Head of Product & R&D at Research Institute Amsterdam BV (2018-01 – 2022-12)

Progressed from Head of Product Development to Managing Director over 4.5 years, overseeing full R&D and product portfolio for enterprise and government clients.

• Developed and executed company strategy; owned risk management and trusted-partner communications with senior executive and government stakeholders.
• Led discovery, prototyping and go-to-market launches using JTBD, service blueprints and business modelling across ML, blockchain and legacy enterprise technology.
• Produced analytical research reports and strategic technology assessments; managed a team of 10 senior engineers, designers and product managers.

Product Manager — Event Technology at Informa / UBM EMEA (2016-10 – 2017-04)

• Owned product management of event publishing platform covering 60 events across 20 UBM EMEA brands.
• Authored user stories, managed product backlog and coordinated sprint delivery with development teams.

Project Manager — Branding & Digital Products at Art. Lebedev Studio (2010-01 – 2014-12)

• End-to-end delivery of complex web, mobile and branding projects for international clients at one of the world's most recognised design studios.
• Client relationships, account strategy, cost modelling and risk management.

Scientific Assistant to Professor at Moscow University of Industry & Finance (MUIF) (2008-01 – 2012-12)

Research under Professor Tatiana S. Novashina, economic cycles, global financial dynamics, neo-institutional theory and corporate crisis management.

• Produced academic research outputs and contributed to macroeconomic dynamics research, foundational methodology applied to technology market analysis and trend prediction.
• Scientific Secretary, Strategic and Financial Management research group; part-time tutor, Business Economy.

Service Design Immersive in Service Design – Cooper Professional Education (Designit) (2019-01 – 2019-12)

Master of Science in Business Administration & Management – Moscow University of Industry and Finance (MUIF) (2007-01 – 2012-12)