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Madeleine Bell

Operator and builder in early-stage startups. Perpetually trying to get into rooms with people who are smarter than me.

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Principles

  • Absolute ownership aka GYSHIDO
  • Radical candor
  • Every day is a school day

Work & Education

Head of Operations (UK), Entrepreneurs First

2024 → Present

Making order out of chaos in EF’s flagship London office so that a new generation of founders can build

Senior Operations Manager, Terraformation Inc

2021 → 2024

Managing the build, execution and scaling of the world’s first Seed-to-Carbon Forest Accelerator

Portfolio management: Project scoping and execution across Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the Pacific.

Strategy & Special Projects, Desolenator

2017 → 2021

First deployments of a patented solar-thermal desalination solution to address the global water crisis.

Partnership building from LA to Bangladesh, and deployed a project in a brewery in the Canary Islands with AB InBev

Associate, Meridian West

2015 → 2017

Market strategy for private-equity backed and professional services firms in London

Undergrad, University of Cambridge

2011-2015

Geography & Politics B.A.

Articles & Podcasts

  • Writer of hot damn. which explores the economic opportunities which will be catalyzed by the climate crisis
  • Agenda contributor for the World Economic Forum
  • Guest speaker on The Stream discussing the water crisis (and rocket-ships)