Genevieve Leveille - AgriLedger

Founders Unfound

Feb 26, 2021•57 min

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In this episode Genevieve and Dan discussed:

Starting life in Haiti
How she's combined science and finance into a career
The lessons of "timing" from 2000 and 2008
How distributed blockchain can INCREASE trust
What happens to mangoes shipped to the US

Genevieve 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.