Rosemary Lokhorst

Rosemary Lokhorst is a writer, technology entrepreneur and multiple award-winning game producer – a professional geek with a creative mind and an interest in looking at things from a different angle.

During her ascending career, she worked in several Fortune 500 companies before investing in and joining a start-up with the mission of improving quality of life through technology in urban developments, the award-winning software company Living PlanIT.

Over the years, she developed a keen interest in the storytelling potential that technology offers, and the potential for creating stories that are supported by the right technology in getting their message across. Discovering her creative side through that process, she now uses her 'techspertise' and vivid imagination to produce content that positively impacts lives.

She is the producer and narrator of Shadow's Edge, the multiple award-winning mobile game that helps young people find their inner ninja through gameplay. Shadow’s Edge was designed specifically to build resilience in young people, giving them in-game self-help tools to gain life skills like confidence, a more positive self-identity and courage to communicate.

Shadow's Edge provides serious fun; in an intriguing digital game world with relatable characters and infused with content that helps teens and young adults work through the hard stuff that comes their way. It reaches them right where they are–on their phones, playing games. Because Everybody is dealing with Something.

Rosemary mentors young female entrepreneurs, is a regular guest blogger on various sites and consults companies on using gamification to get their story across. She is an international speaker and is currently working on her second screenplay. She has a Master’s in computer science and Economics (MCA).