Co-founder of Aktinora, a new ai insurtech. Prior to this, starting as employee number one, Jennifer spent a decade working at various early stage tech startups (pre-seed & seed), including Batelle - an online sleep school for babies & young children.
Gave a 45 minute talk on Networking & Playing the Game at an entrepreneurs conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Is the MC of an annual entrepreneurs conference in Mexico, & helps run techno-optimist events in London.
Creating & licensing products. Currently developing in the beauty industry.
Jennifer is developing several projects including the script for a lo-fi sci-fi feature film, alongside Steve Durban-Haines.
She has previously co-written a sitcom, the industry reading of which was attended by BigTalk, Hat Trick, Retort, Ricky Gervais' Producer, & BBC Worldwide, as well as receiving script requests from the BBC & Lucky Giant (NBCUniversal) amongst others.
Jennifer's acting work includes short film ‘The First Noel’, which screened at Cannes Film Festival, & ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ at the RSC Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the World Shakespeare Festival.
Her talent & professionalism have seen her work repeatedly called upon. She appeared in each of Elizabeth Jane Baldry's last three feature films ('Sir Lanval', 'The Ballad of Mary Whyddon', 'Tam Lin'), & spent three seasons with Grassroots Shakespeare London.
She has worked on short films with both acclaimed photographer Kofi Allen (National Portrait Gallery), & Film & TV director Steve Kelly ('Casualty', 'Holby City', 'The Bill', 'City Rats') who praised her performance as "very assured & excellently judged."
She got her professional start as playing Elizabeth Brontë as a child in Northern Ballet Theatre's production of ‘The Brontës’. She went on to train at the ITV Television Workshop, & spent two years working with some of Europe's most esteemed Meisner Technique teachers, including Paul Dekker, & Scott Williams - who had studied with Sanford Meisner himself at the Neighbourhood Playhouse in New York.
Jennifer began as a singer & pianist aged 5, & started composing not long after. She has a wide vocal range - from tenor to soprano - & has performed on more than a dozen different instruments over the years.
As a songwriter & composer, she has worked on several theatrical productions & the feature film 'Forget Paris' which premiered at the Raindance Film Festival, & later screened at Cannes.
She has performed in a variety of styles from touring as a singer-songwriter; to a screaming & slamming a keyboard in a rock-&-roll band that received airplay from BBC Radio 1, 2, & 6music, opened a festival, & toured; to improvising in an experimental string quartet that broadcast live from the Venn Festival; to singing backing vocals for a Neo-Soul act; to being part of the choir for Thanksgiving services at St Paul’s Cathedral; to performing her classical piano compositions as part of a German tour.
Whilst studying for her degree in Creative Music Technology, she started a record label whose debut release by SJ Esau was later re-released by cult Californian label Anticon. She played piano for a track on his follow-up album for that label.
Jennifer Performs: Backing Vocals & Accordian || Backing Vocals & Keyboard || Backing Vocals, Glockenspiel & Trumpet
Has worked various roles from Producer to Floor Manager, including AD & Sound Engineer. Work has screened at Cannes, Raindance, & on Channel 4 in the UK. Has also worked on live broadcasts.
Occasional model
