Genevieve Leveille - AgriLedger

OUR SPONSORS FOR THIS EPISODE:Multicultural Mainstream: Reimagining Humanity and TechnologyA virtual venture conference hosted by the Columbia Venture CommunityAccess great content and breakouts with venture capitalists. March 5-6th 2021Check out bit.ly/CVCMM for tickets. Don't miss out!In this episode Genevieve and Dan discussed:Starting life in HaitiHow she's combined science and finance into a careerThe lessons of "timing" from 2000 and 2008How distributed blockchain can INCREASE trustWhat happens to mangoes shipped to the USGenevieve Leveille is the Founder and CEO of AgriLedger, a company that is revolutionizing the agriculture value chain using distributed ledger and blockchain technology.Born in Haiti, Genevieve came to the US and New York for high school. She was a science major and researcher, and eventually found her way into banking and over to the UK. Genevieve burst onto the blockchain world with force a few years ago. And it all started with a crypto hackathon. She’s been nominated by the Financial Times to the top 100 BAME in UK technology, and was a winner of the ComputerWeekly 2020 Women in Software. She is also currently the Vice-chairman of TechUK’s Distributed Ledger Technologies Working Group. Genevieve is now building a company that is using distributed ledger to RE-distribute value and reallocate margin and wealth across our food supply chain. All with the source -- the farmer -- at the core.Make sure to listen to her compelling story.MORE on GENEVIEVE and AGRILEDGERGenevieve:linkedin.com/in/genevieveleveille/twitter.com/GinouInLondonAgriLedger:agriledger.iolinkedin.com/company/agriledger/twitter.com/AgriledgerFollow Founders Unfound : Like and share - help us grow!PODCAST TRANSCRIPT#blackfounders #blackentrepreneurs #founderstory #underrepresented #underestimated #founderAfricandescent #blockchain #agritech Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.