Nina Schick
Sovereign AI Strategist · Author · Founder, Tamang Ventures
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The Race for AGI & Industrial Intelligence
Nina Schick is the strategic mind behind the Industrialization of Intelligence — the thesis that AI has ceased to be a business opportunity and become the definitive engine of hard power.
The race toward AGI is not being won in code alone. It is being won through mastery of the industrial stack: energy, semiconductors, and compute. The nations and enterprises that control this infrastructure will define the next century of global power.
Now based in the United States, Nina’s role is to ensure the right organizations understand what they are building — and what is at stake if they don’t.
At the Frontiers of Global Power
Nina’s strategic framework is engaged by institutions operating at the highest levels of global decision-making. She has advised the Secretary General of NATO, briefed U.S. President Joe Biden, and works directly with the U.S. Army, the United Nations, and Mastercard on the intersection of AI, sovereignty, and statecraft.
She curates private convenings for Fortune 50 leadership — salon-style dialogues where the architects of the new industrial stack sit alongside senior defense and enterprise decision-makers. These are not panels. They are the conversations that shape strategy before it becomes consensus.
The Portfolio: Tamang Ventures
Through Tamang Ventures, Nina holds active advisory and equity roles with the frontier firms constructing the infrastructure of intelligence.
- Synthesia ($4B): Advising the global pioneer in enterprise AI video generation through explosive growth.
- Qlik ($12B): Founding member of the AI Council, guiding industrial-scale intelligence for the enterprise.
- Truepic: Securing digital integrity and provenance in an era of synthetic abundance.
A Decade Inside European Statecraft
Nina’s strategic lens was forged navigating the structural fractures of European power. For a decade, she operated at the heart of UK and EU policy — through Brexit, energy crises, and the erosion of democratic trust. She worked on Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign and advised on the Democracy Perception Index, the world’s largest machine-learning study on global attitudes toward democracy.
DEEPFAKES & The Infocalypse
Her 2020 book, DEEPFAKES, was the first to establish the geopolitical framework for generative AI — years before it entered the global mainstream. It introduced the concept of the ‘Infocalypse’ and became foundational reading for national security and defense institutions worldwide.
Half-Nepalese, half-German, fluent in five languages, Nina has lived and worked across Europe, Asia, and North America. She spent seven years as a strategic analyst for CNN, Bloomberg, and Sky — not as a commentator, but as a primary intelligence source during the defining geopolitical fractures of the decade.
As non-biological intelligence becomes a utility, Nina is focused on the most consequential question of our era: what happens when the price of intelligence falls to zero?