2023 HATCH Europe Bios (Team)

Erica Mackey is a serial entrepreneur and HATCH Board Member. She is currently architecting HATCH Studio to co-create solutions for major systemic problems at a time when creative solutions are most needed. Additionally, in a collaboration with other HATCHers, she is building an investment firm focused on sustainable cities systems. She previously co-founded MyVillage and Zola Electric which scaled international solutions targeting injustices in the care economy and clean energy spaces. Her ventures have raised over $180M from investors including Elon Musk, Paul Allen, Jeff Skoll, and others.

Elke works at the intersection of community, culture, content, creativity, and connection. She is a long-time HATCH board member and one of the architects of HATCH Studios. Previous clients include the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge, World Investment Conferences, and MyVillage. She's passionate about sustainability (at all levels, including personal wellbeing). She is also on the board of Ballet Beyond Borders that connects the world through art. She also leads custom Alaskan cruises, founded Mamalode which grew from a magazine into a movement, and finished writing her memoir.

14 Billion yrs ago I was just some lazy hydrogen. Now I practice transformation via Culture Design, Facilitation, Entrepreneurship & Meditation.

As the Director of Partnerships for HATCH, Jared works to educate, accelerate, and invest in entrepreneurs who are creating solutions to social problems. Jared’s role involves developing and implementing strategies to collaborate with individuals, corporations and foundations to scale the impact of HATCH globally. Also an Instructor at Prescott College, Jared teaches courses in Ecopsychology, The History of Psychiatry, Yogic Philosophy, and Human Development. As a researcher for the Gwydion Fund, Jared works to connect people with the natural world.

Jurgis Didžiulis (aka Jurgis DID) is more than a musician. He is a seasoned public speaker and an inspirational educator with degrees in Political Science and Business Administration. His unique ability to present ideas and shift perspectives through musical illustration and co-creation activates, elevates and educates in ways that words alone cannot: https://jurgisdid.com. Over the past 10 years, Jurgis has led over 700 sessions, interactive seminars, and other creative activities promoting human skills, emotional awareness and community culture.

Roshi Givechi provides design consulting services to large businesses, individual startup entrepreneurs, and non-profit organizations looking to make a difference, while also developing her own short doc films. Common core? To enhance mindsets, crystalize experiences and amplify outcomes. After 19 years at global design firm IDEO, lastly as Partner - Executive Design Director, she coined her 2018 “creative sabbatical” before opting to consult. She loves shaping content, helping founders articulate their offer, and programming workshops with others to unlock individual and collective impact.

Rachel works at the intersection of event production, facilitation, community building, and strategy. She helps nonprofits, businesses, and individuals build connection, create live events/experiences, and produce products that make an impact. She’s a certified Integral Facilitator with a passion for supporting and inspiring others to connect to their ‘WHY’ and achieve their goals.

Folk soul singer / songwriter, Teneia is a International touring musician and activist who spreads a message of love and equality. Her profound take on love and social justice makes her a force of nature. She's a musical ambassador for the United States. In 2022, Teneia become the 3rd female composer to present with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra in 75 years. Teneia is passionate about female empowerment, equality, love and dance.

William Chamberlin is pushing the envelope in social, educational, and media experiences by continually reintegrating an arsenal of new concepts and human connections. Through an experiential remix uniting music, dialogue, activism, and expression, each step and swell brings a new form of media cultivating curiosity, education & empathy. This arsenal will serve well as he descends upon the world like a platinum-fisted pterodactyl, dropping artistic carpet bombs carrying the seed of expression and social conglomeration.

Serving change agents + global entities sincere about developing intra + inter-personal capabilities needed to forward the UN SDGs—Facilitator. Artist. Lecturer @ MIT Sloan. Founder @ TILT, social enterprise focused on artful evolution of leaders + cultures working in ever-changing contexts. Serves McKinsey's think tank for Learning Innovation. Pioneers curricula to train leaders in lived practices that facilitate ongoing growth of individuals + communities at MIT Sloan, Harvard ilab, Stanford d.school. Lived in an Australian Aboriginal community for 3 years to study how we mature creatively.

Mark Brand is a pioneering chef and entrepreneur in the field of Social Impact and Community Development. Along with leading his 5 organizations, Brand is a Stanford fellow, Professor of Innovation and Design Thinking, has served as executive chef for the American Refugee Committee and Pope Francis's Climate Challenge. Most recently he launched “BETTER”, an iHeart Original radio show and podcast, bringing tools for us all to live better lives through stories of lived experiences from our most beloved citizens.

Eskil Bjerkestrand is a freelance filmmaker and photographer working to help mission driven companies and organisations that seek to inspire connection to nature, self and others, through the art of visual storytelling.