Richine Etwaru, CEO & Founder, HU-Manity.com

Richie Etwaru (born January 1976 in Guyana) is an American business executive, author, global keynote speaker, adjunct professor and patent holder who specializes in the next era of commerce termed “Trusted Commerce”. He has held c-level roles at Fortune 500 companies for two decades and serves as an advisor to venture capitalists, startups, governments, academia, and large organizations on transitioning to Trust Companies. He is currently the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hu-manity.co which is the world’s first company designed to create decentralized human rights using proprietary technology and legal innovations on blockchains. Hu-manity.co has declared the 31st human right: “Everyone has the right to legal ownership of their inherent human data as property.” #31 is the first decentralized human right and in addition to the existing 30 rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and bestowed on every human at birth. Richie’s book Blockchain Trust Companies, Every Company is at Risk of Being Disrupted by a Trusted Version of Itself (2017) is used by universities, consulting organizations, and governments, and one of his three TEDx talks Blockchain Massively Simplified has been viewed almost 1 million times.