Albertus Geldenhuys

Albertus Geldenhuys left South Africa at the age of 20 to work in diplomacy, public relations and international trading in France, Brazil, Japan, Belgium and Germany, before settling in Switzerland to manage a chemical trading company. He now manages the Terra Perpetua Conservation Division of The Art Company AG in Zug. His mission is to use artificial intelligence and innovative financial technology to release significant funding for verifiable, bankable nature conservation. He is the inventor of a granted United States patent on the analysis of cultural artefacts and has patent applications pending on wildlife identification, provenance and conservation verification. A graduate of the University of Pretoria (BA cum laude, BA Honours), he lives in Ticino, southern Switzerland.