NuMundo

University of California, Berkeley

Entrepreneur working at the nexus of blockchain & impact

Oakland, California, United States

ReSource is an open-source blockchain protocol for under-collateralized business credit.

Resource Protocol grants businesses credit lines backed by their products & services. ReSource is designed based on the principles of mutual credit. We are building core financial infrastructure for web 3 merchant credit networks globally.

The ReSource Network is a B2B credit and trade network built on the ReSource Protocol.

ReSource Network

Co-Founder & CEO

The Celo Scout Program is a new program enabling the discovery of pre-seed and seed stage startups that leverage web 3 technology for impact. The program expands Celo's reach, and discovers entrepreneurs who are making a global impact at the grassroots, where traditional venture often doesn't reach and where some of the most creative solutions emerge. My role is to identify and invest in startups that can add value to the Celo ecosystem. Focus: #ReFi (green finance) and financial inclusion.

Celo

Celo Venture Scout

SocialStack is a social money protocol powering open and inclusive creator-driven economies, built on the Celo and Ethereum blockchains.

I helped build the core team, prototyped the MVP product on Ethereum, and advise on fundraising, go-to-market strategy, protocol development, treasury management strategy, and community-building.

Socialstack

Advisor

Gane is a mobile carrier where users earn free data, voice, and text by using their mobile wallet and interacting with content. Gane's mission is to use technology and business to empower those who need it most with mobile connectivity, education, access to information, and financial inclusion.

I support Gane on fundraising strategy, business development, and strategic applications of blockchain technology and crypto-economic networks.

Gane Mobile

Impact Leaders Club is a network of entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and human beings dedicated to creating a world that works for everyone.

Vision: Humanity entering a win-win era; where wealth redistribution overturns poverty while regenerating natural ecosystems and communities.

Mission: To introduce new business models that can steer the market forces in a sustainable path; business models that can scale quickly and impact millions of people.

Impact Leaders Club

Founding Facilitator

My roles with NuMundo include business development, facilitation, project management, talent recruiting, event production, and creative direction, and ensuring that the company's vision is maintained as our organization grows and evolves.

NuMundo is a platform that connects individuals to transformational travel experiences.

Objectives:
-  Provide a platform for individuals to discover the tools and resources they need to empower them to live a meaningful life via a path of personal and professional growth
-  Support the growth of place-based education centers that integrate traditional knowledge, well-being, sustainability, appropriate technology, and regenerative business models
-  Build a global network that facilitates regenerative relationships between people, places and organizations

Founder & Chairman

Consulting on the infrastructure development of the Kisoro District of Uganda with a focus on public transportation, urban planning, decentralized networks, and applications of blockchain technology and Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies.

Kisoro District Local Government

Consultant

Gojoy is a shared ecommerce platform owned and operated by a global community of shoppers, retailers and manufacturers.

Took GoJoy from seed to launch ($1mm monthly revenues). Developed impact thesis, supported build-out of leadership team, performed due diligence on strategic partners and hires, set key strategic partnerships in place, set up meetings with investors from around the world, produced events for investors in various cities, advanced and tightened operations, edited fundraising materials, on-boarded other employees.

GHU AG (Gojoy)

Growth Catalyst

Built the team, raised seed funding, and facilitated initial conceptual and design work for Tuq'tu'quilal Eco-Lodge.

Tuq'tu'quilal is a regenerative living and learning center, providing sustainable techniques, technologies, and ways of living to empower both the local indigenous community of Lanquin and international visitors.

<a href="https://www.tuqtuquilal.com/">https://www.tuqtuquilal.com/</a>

Tuqtuquilal Regenerative Impact Center

Co-Founder

Producer of annual four-day event on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Cosmic Convergence is designed as an educational transformative experience, immersing participants in an interactive series of demonstrations, workshops, cultural displays, and others forms of new media. Proceeds from the event support local development projects in the surrounding indigenous communities.
Associated with the event are a series of educational workshops, retreats, and tours around Guatemala.

Responsibilities:
- Set the concept and vision for the event and manage a core production team to adhere to guidelines
- Budget-planning
- Booking international and national artists
- Recruiting and coordinating an international staff and volunteer crew
- Develop marketing material and manage an international promotion campaign
- Logistics & Destination Management
- Interfacing with local municipal authorities, community organizations, and non-profits

Cosmic Convergence

Founder & Co-Producer

Justice, Unity, Sustainable Fair Trade for Artisans

JUSTA is a fair-trade cooperative project based in Guatemala, focusing on the production of clothing using sustainable and ethical methods. Products are sold internationally. The project works on a number of levels: a fair wage for traditional artisans, literacy for our workers, interest-free loans to support the families we work with, training in business skills, computer and internet knowledge, access to medicine, record-keeping and financial literacy, and creative freedom. JUSTA also sponsors a community nutritional education project, Comida Vida, that brings nutritional education to communities in the Lake Atitlan Area.

Responsibilities:
-  Design men's clothing with local indigenous womens' cooperatives on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
-  Manage design process, production, budget, export & shipping, and wholesale & retail
-  Set up and managed temporary points of sale at fairs in North & Central America

JUSTA

Designer & Sales

- Site manager overseeing international farm volunteer program, managing up to 20 participants
- Managed farm kitchen, including food sourcing, cooking, scheduling shifts
- Managed farm employees, coffee harvest
- Managed seed bank inventory
- Managed garden, seed & starter nursery, vermiculture worm composting system
- Managed volunteer communications
- Participated in diverse on-site construction projects, using power tools, basic carpentry, earthen building and earth-bag techniques, bamboo construction, cement
- Cultivated a mutual aid network with local non-profit organizations
- Developed curriculum and program for nutritional education in local communities
- Cultivated and maintained relationships with donors

Independent Sector

Volunteer Program Manager

- Taught English as a third language to students age 13-17 through the US State Department-sponsored ACCESS Program at Universidad del Valle, Solola, Guatemala. Employed "immersion methodology" including songs, games, outdoor classroom learning, exercises integrating corporal movement and new vocabulary,
- Developed a curriculum sensitive to indigenous Guatemalan culture
- Planned cultural activities and guest teachers, administered homework for a class of 30

ACCESS

English Teacher

- Contract work for a number of event production operations in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Included retreats, workshops, music festivals, conferences, community fairs, seed exchanges, cultural exchanges
- Wore any number of hats, including but not limited to: programming and curation, digital marketing and communications, staffing, project management, artist & presenter booking, hosting and hospitality, contract preparation, English-Spanish simultaneous translation, logistics & procurement, transport coordination, primary interface with local municipal and tribal authorities, budgeting & finance, parking management, emergency preparedness, conflict mediation, security planning
- Facilitation (world cafe, open space technology, hosting panels), keynote presentations

Independent Contractor/Freelance Producer

Event Producer

Bartending, event management, hosting, and food preparation for local, national, and international academic conferences and events.

International House

Staff

UC Berkeley

Graduate in Global Poverty & Practice

September 2006 - June 2007: "Multicultural Rights in Europe and North America, Islam and the Rights of the European State", Professor Renata Holub, Interdisciplinary Studies Examined theoretical issues against the background of actual integration of Muslim immigrants into the European nation states on the local and national level. Focused on migration to Amsterdam.

January 2008 - July 2008: "Central America: Patterns of Human Rights Violations", Professor Beatriz Manz, Ethnic Studies
Research conducted for Professor Manz went towards the creation of a human rights analysis which the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees had requested her to write. I was responsible for the research pertaining to Nicaragua, including its historical and contemporary social, political, and economic background, violence and human rights issues, inter-linkages between different actors, and the ability of government to protect its citizens. The final product can be viewed online here:
<a href="http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/48ad1eb72.pdf">www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/48ad1eb72.pdf</a>

David Casey

David Casey