Julius O. Akinyemi

Founder/CEO of UWINCorp and The Mobile Commodity Exchange, Entrepreneur In Residence, MIT Media Lab

Julius is the Founder and CEO of UWINCorp Inc., the blockchain powered Mobile Commodity Marketplace that aims to create the Next Generation Capital Market Infrastructure for rural producers and indigenous genetic assets. He is also the "Coordinateur, MS - Management de l’Innovation Technologique," Service Mastère Spécialisé® (MS-MIT) at Toulouse Business School in Toulouse, France. Julius is an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the MIT Media Lab; he is a technology innovator and an experienced senior executive. Before his affiliation with the MIT Media Lab, he was the Global Director of Emerging Technologies for PepsiCo Inc., and prior to joining PepsiCo, he was the Senior Vice President for Emerging Technologies and the Wireless Business Technologies at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco. He is currently a member of the appointed consultants by the World Intellectual Properties Organization (WIPO), an agency of the United Nations in Geneva, as Intellectual Properties practitioner. Julius is one of the 12 member global jurors for OECD’s prize for taking Innovation to scale. He is the initiator of leveraging emerging technologies to measure the health of nations to combat current and future viruses.

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