Feb 26, 2021
The Zero Hunger Formula
In this inaugural episode of the Global Investor Podcast, Linqto Chief Strategy Officer and host, Karim Nurani, welcomes serial entrepreneur and Chairman of the World Food Bank Group and Mediae Group, Richard Lakey, to discuss how can we leverage the digital economy to empower the very rural farmers who barely have access to the internet.
Richard discusses how his passion for building systems that address market inefficiencies led him, along with a world-class team of experts, to create the World Food Bank, an innovative platform that brings together stakeholders in an integrated agricultural value chain that is lifting more than a million people out of poverty every year and scaling food production in developing markets faster than ever before.
About Our Guest
Mr. Richard Lackey is a serial entrepreneur with a background that includes several years in emergency medicine as well as almost three decades as an active trader and fund manager. He has appeared as an expert in the field in magazines, on radio and television, and is the bestselling author of Radical Response: Free Market Solutions to Global Crises.
His passion for building systems that address market inefficiencies led him, along with a world-class team of experts, to create the World Food Bank, an innovative platform that brings together stakeholders in an integrated agricultural value chain that is lifting more than a million people out of poverty every year and scaling food production in developing markets faster than ever before.
He presently serves as the Chairman of the World Food Bank Group and Mediae Group, and he is also the Founder of the asset-backed SYLO blockchain solution for emerging market agriculture.
More information is available at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-lackey-7894571/
Richard will be a guest on a panel at our upcoming Global Investor Conference on March 9, 2021
For more information and to register go to www.theglobalinvestorconference.com
About our Host
Karim Nurani is an entrepreneur, investor, and chief strategy officer at Linqto, a leading platform providing liquidity in the private sector. The Global Investor Podcast host, Karim has 30 years of experience in new business development with a focus on strategy and business transformation.
As a visionary who can assess business models from the perspectives of both an executive and investor, Nurani is responsible for the formation and success of over a hundred startups ranging from mining to process manufacturing.
As a partner at Keiretsu Connect, and throughout his time with Bay Angels, Sandalwood Ventures, and other entities, he has guided investors and new venture leaders to the launch and development of markets as diverse as IoT, GreenTech, CannaTech, AR and VR, and more.
Find Karim on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/karimnurani/
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