Richard Hallewell is a serial disruptor and innovator in the financial services sector. He is the CEO of Ethecal, Founder of CPRAS and creator of the Universal Pricing Model, which is still used to determine processing costs for over a third of UK card payments. He has a deep understanding of the payments industry and […]
Natalie Furness is the Co- Founder of Women in Technology Revolution (WiTechRev). She is passionate about empowering women to aspire to lead in industry 4.0. Her community are working on some exciting projects, the first being #girlslikeme. If you would like to put yourself forward to mentor a ‘girl like you’ for 2 hours per month, please […]
Christiana Imafidon, who has been described by The Guardian as ‘truly exceptional,’ passed GCSE Maths at the age of nine. She went on to write a book to help her friends struggling with Maths called ‘Maths Manual’, which sold out on Amazon. She personally gave a copy of the book to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey […]
Blockchain is the word you hear in the pages of the Financial Times or maybe when you meet some tech guy at a party (it’s pretty much always a guy). Making the association between blockchain and looking after your elderly relatives, a job that often falls to women, or linking blockchain with improvements in mental […]
At our recent conference, Healthcare Unblocked 2018, we caught up with Pradeep Goel, CEO of Solve.Care, to find out what progress they have been making since we last met and to find out more about the launch of their Care.Wallet for Family. Care.Wallet for Family is a personal healthcare application for coordination and administration which […]
For the past 25 years, Genevieve has built a career helping bankers and treasurers find better ways of keeping track of the cash. These beans were not the only one she kept a record of, however. Her love of food is evidenced by the over 6K of food snaps in her iPhone! With AgriLedger, Genevieve […]
Wernhard Berger is Chief Business Development Officer of Grapevine World. He has held multiple roles at start-ups, consultancies and multinational corporations in Vienna, London and Silicon Valley. Before his role at Grapevine World, he led business development and go-to-market for Cisco’s Connected Health Interoperability Platform and Medical Data Exchange Solution, coordinating sales, marketing and product […]
Aldo de Pape is co-founder and CEO of genomes.io. Aldo is a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded TeachPitch, a technology that helps teachers and schools with the problem of information abundance through curation, artificial intelligence and online training. He has also worked in scientific publishing for Springer and Macmillan and is author of a children’s book called […]
Eric M Fish is Senior Vice President of Legal Services at Federation of State Medical Boards. The Federation of State Medical Boards might not seem like the most obvious place to find a home for a blockchain project. What got you started down the path of exploring blockchain solutions for healthcare? Throughout American history, providing for […]
Hi Micah, Great to have you back on Chain Reaction. Last time we interviewed you, around a year ago, Gem was very focused on healthcare but now you are building something new, can you tell us a bit about how your focus has shifted? When I started Gem back in 2013 there were only really […]
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