Joseph Rehmann

Africa has the world's largest food deficit, yet the largest capacity and natural resource base in the world to produce food. In a rapidly developing African continent, we can develop custom technologies and business models to catch up to this enormous, multi-hundred billion dollar unmet demand. Rehmann established Victory Farms with the mission to be the world's most sustainable fish business and provide high nutrition protein to the mass market in Africa. Victory now has many accolades: fastest growing fish farm in Africa, most efficient cold chain system in Africa selling to mass market towns (where 90% of African's shop), most capital efficient tilapia production system in the world. But more important than the rapid, scalable growth, is Victory's impact on its communities and environment. We've created more than 10,000 jobs so far and plan to add another 35,000 jobs in the coming 2 years. We have cut our carbon emissions by 25% in 2020-2021 and plan for a full 50% reduction by the end of 2023 -- lightyears faster than any of our global peers. We aim to be fully carbon negative by 2025. And millions of African are eating affordable, fresh and nutritious protein where it wasn't available before. Born in Egypt, he has been immersed in frontier markets for much of his life and career. He is passionate about the positive impact of capital markets and strongly believes that the world today needs responsible financial and operational architects to develop new markets and ensure the fruits of capitalism are inclusive. Joseph earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from INSEAD in Singapore and France.