Joseph Shields

Experienced entrepreneur with more than ten years leading food and agriculture businesses, identifying market new opportunities, creating and executing strategy, fundraising, and developing best-in-class executive management teams. Co-founded and co-led Flow Equity to establish EthioChicken and Uzima Chicken, together the largest smallholder-focused poultry platform in Africa, operating in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Uganda. These businesses have nearly 2,000 employees, serve nearly 10,000 distributors, and won the Financial Times Boldness in Business Award for Small Companies