1. Biography
Nadine is a London-born business woman and co-founder of the Wild at Heart Foundation. A
mechanical engineer by training, her path took a very different route working in advertising for
Volkswagen, the BBC, Sony Ericsson, Adidas and Cadbury. Later in her career,she moved to
management consultancy, where she currently works leading the marketing and communications for
an award-winning global firm. Working on projects from Delhi to Dubai, Madrid to Mexico and Los
Angeles to Lagos, her scope has stretched the globe and influenced decision-makers in both local and
regional government and the private sector.
She is a natural entrepreneur,having set up a number of personal initiatives – ranging from the launch
of the health food product ‘Love Muesli’ harking back to her days of grandma’s homemade muesli in
the hills of Switzerland where she spent much of her childhood, through to the Yoga Agency, an
initiative to encourage more office executives to stretch and breathe deeply during their working day.
She is a qualified yoga instructor with a number of published papers and articles.
Nadine strongly believes in the right for all women to receive an education and has been a mentor for
the Aspire Foundation since 2014, a charity whose aim is to support women working in NGOs
through mentoring and training. Their target is to help one billion women by 2020.
Her passion for animals started as a small child, always fascinated by nature, and gently caring for
sick and wounded animals. From a young teen she was involved in charity work, volunteering at the
RSPCA,WWF and Greenpeace. She has never been without a four-legged friend, and all of her dogs
have been rescues,believing that there is no reason to buy a bred or puppy-farmed dog when there are
so many healthy dogs killed each year because they have no home.
She went on to research the stray dog issue worldwide and found that there are well over 600 million
stray dogs globally, with authorities often imposing horrific methods of attempted population control,
agonising poising, shooting, hanging and beatings. She couldn’t bear the thought that this gentle
animal, ‘man’s best friend’, was being treated so inhumanely and that population control wasn’t
managed more compassionately. This was her incentive for starting the Wild at Heart Foundation.