Robin Smith is the Founder and CEO of NextPhase Foundation, a non-profit organization seeking to leverage accountability-based partnerships across educational, governmental and industry stakeholders in tech, renewable energy, agriculture and infrastructure for the benefit of marginalized and/or developing economies. Possessing an eclectic background immersed in industries from highly-specialized law focuses to real estate to journalism to farming, she strives daily to bring her experience and contacts gleaned from more than thirty years’ work together, toward the goal of empowerment of developing communities in the U.S. and abroad.

With an eye toward triple bottom-line projects, a grassroots approach, and partners in the United States, Africa, Israel, India and Argentina, Robin works to immediately open raw commodities trade doors between smallholder farmers co-ops in East Africa, South India and the world, standardizing trade processes, aiding in value-added and CPG development strategies support, and helping develop the necessary infrastructures and support required not just to launch but to maintain regional growth in these areas.

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