Ira
Van Eelen
Food and Farming Futurist
Everything you need to know about cultivated meats
AMSTERDAM • REMOTE
PROJECTS • PART TIME • CONSULTANCY
Ideal Projects Include…
Business design for a Future Food hotel
Designing the most effective trade delegation
Talking about Cultivated Meat, Preventive Healthcare and future-proofing teenagers through education
Skillset
📝 Marketing
🛒 Sales
🤝 Support
⚙️ Engineering
🖍 Design
📢 PR and Communication
🧪 Science
🧑🏽🍳 Product Development
☝️ Advisory
🦸🏼♀️ Leadership
🎉 Events
Categories
⚡ Technology
♻️ Sustainability
🗞 Media and Events
👨👩👦👦 Community Organisations
🧗♀️ Health and Fitness
💪 Approach
I am organised chaos and I do that on purpose because humans are at their most creative when we are getting out of chaos.
👑 Greatest Accomplishment
Winning the biggest grant of its kind in the Netherlands to power the scale up of cultivated meat (€60m) and the trust of people I have worked with whether as their boss, coworker, advisor, partner or educator.
In those capacities, I have built a successful business, and a not-for-profit global community of business leaders and scientists with KindEarth.Tech
🎙 About Me
I am loyal, candid, original and insightful
💻 Experience
Having studied law and political science at university, I unexpectedly built a consumer-focused, healthcare IT software business for over 30 years. Whilst doing so, I also started several mission driven initiatives in Preventive Healthcare, Education, Event Design, Teen Education and Cultivated Meat.
What I Love…
Redefining perceptions of what cultivated meat is capable of in the future of food is my passion
WHat I’m Good At…
Envisioning impossible things and making them happen
What the World Needs…
My knowledge and insight of the history and future of Cultivated Meat to envision a food future that farmers and startups can all get involved with. I advise cultivated meat businesses and enable connection through speaking and organising industry-focused events.
What I can Offer…
I contextualise ideas in ways that are often surprising. I am available for Non-Exec roles, strategic advisory and speaking engagements. I always take the one asking the question into account and love to work with young people.
My Ikigai Is…
To bring people along with me and embrace what they haven't considered before
What makes me unique
🥰 Open-Mindedness
I open my house, heart and mind to all without judgement.
💡 Visionary
Instinctively knowing what needs to be or, can be, accomplished
🤝 Bridge Builder
Enabling connections between industry and science
Personality – ENFP
(Campaigner)
EXTRAVERT
INTROVERT
THINKING
FEELING
JUDGING
PROSPECTING
OBSERVER
INTUITIVE
🌯 Signature Dish
Tempeh Nasi Goreng
🏖️ Outside of work you’ll find me…
Swimming in Amsterdam's harbour
🏝 Desert Island Disc
Jazz
👀 My Best Friend would say I’m…
The hostess with the most-ess
"Ira is a very inspiring speaker and a thought leader on clean/cultured meat. She engages well with the public, uses strong visuals to strengthen her story and made a vegan audience rethink their point of views."
Willem Blom
FoodTech Investor
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