Episodes
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
iEat Green - Rahoul Mehra and John Ubaldo - AgFamiliar
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Rahoul is the co-founder of AgFamiliar. He is an advisor, investor, and serial entrepreneur bringing over 25 years of executive experience. He has been a founder, board member and senior executive in companies related to eco-tech, personalized wellness, biotech and big data analytics. Rahoul is focused on opportunities that can affect positive change and strengthen our social cohesion, personal health and environmental wellbeing. Prior to AgFamiliar, Rahoul founded and launched an eco-tech company with effective and naturally safe (for you and the environment) proprietary insect control technologies. Rahoul also established a remote signaling,data analytics platform targeting smart city and agriculture applications. Prior to that he headed worldwide strategy, business development and operational expansion for a private life sciences company. Previously, Rahoul founded and sold a biotech product and services company. Rahoul began his career in corporate Japanese and American organizations. Along with strategy, operations and business development, his scope of responsibilities included acquisitions and the establishment of new business lines and units. Rahoul holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an MBA from Columbia University. He is a husband to his smarter and better half and father to three beautiful little girls (also known as The Jolly 3).
John Ubaldo is the other co-founder of AgFamiliar, and is one of the coop farmers. Prior to staring his farm 17 years ago, he was an investment banker on Wall Street. As owner and operator of John Boys Farm he raises Berkshire pigs, Black Angus cattle, chickens, ducks and geese. The John Boys Farm is 100 percent biodynamic with zero chemical inputs. John also owns a retail space in Bedford, NY called The Outpost and is the founder and COB of the August West Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, which helps small farms grow organically and compete in the marketplace. John has spent the last 12 years helping small farms get established and thrive. John holds a BA from Skidmore College. He is the father of a wonderful little boy.