David Davies

David is the founder and CEO of AgUnity, a global technology platform that empowers thousands of organizations working toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals to connect with ‘the last mile’ farmers and communities. This customised smartphone & OS solution serves as a technological ecosystem; providing the people living and working with remote food supply chains with practical, accessible tools to connect, establish effective lines of communication and ensure an ethical, accountable means of trade. In 2021, David and the AgUnity team created AgriUT Foundation as an independent charitable entity to complement the AgUnity smartphone platform for smallholder farmers. David has founded and served as CEO of successful FinTech, Software as a Service (SaaS), and mobile companies. David has 7 years of experience in designing new blockchain technology from the group up and over 20 years’ experience in innovative applications design. David also spent over a decade in senior roles at global investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Nomura & Standard Chartered Bank). His achievements include transforming Market Data at Standard Chartered Bank, creating a new data allocation and reconciliation process for $100m of spend at zero-tolerance (allocated to the last cent), and saving over $9m annually. David has also designed and developed a revolutionary data transport protocol derived from a hybrid of blockchain and bit-torrent concepts. He is a leading voice on the use and deployment of blockchain technology internationally, and was recently named ‘Agripreneur of the Year’ at the Future Agro Challenge in Turkey.