I’m a Product person, an Entrepreneur, a Public Speaker, and a Visiting Faculty.
MBA Candidate @ Cornell University
CEO & Co-founder at The Impact Wave
President, Blockchain @ Cornell Tech
Advisory Board Member, Umojalands
Visiting Faculty for Blockchain at IIT Madras/Great Learning,
Adjunct Visiting Faculty at Manipal University
Professor of Practice at Manav Rachna University
Brief Profile:
Abhishek (LinkedIn) has been a serial entrepreneur focused on FinTech and BlockchainTech. He's a Forbes 30 under 30 Asia honoree, a 3-times Author, and an Ethereum Foundation Fellow and a UNDP INSPIRO Fellow. While at Brú Finance, he brought Blockchain to farmers to save their income, covering 1,400 warehouses & 20,000+ farmers and US $300 Million in committed TVL and connected them to global DeFi lenders, supported by United Nations Development Programme, IIM Ahmedabad and MassChallenge USA. He is leading the efforts for the annual flagship Cornell Blockchain Conference in New York in April. He's also a Blockchain Educator and has taught 9,000+ faculty, PhDs, and students globally. He recently delivered talks at SmartCon ’22 in New York, DEVCON in Bogota, cNFTCon ’22 in Las Vegas, CITC Conference by Ministry of Communication and IT in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, AIBC Asia in Philippines in Jul '23, and Coinfest Asia in Bali, Indonesia in Aug ’23, at ETHSingapore and the Fintech Festival Asia in Thailand in Sep '23, ETHKL in Kuala Lumpur in Oct '23, the Singapore Fintech Festival in Nov ‘23, and FinovateFall in New York in ‘24.
