Serge Alain Wandji

As a Board Member of WarriorFunds OZ, a veteran- and minority-led Opportunity Zone fund, I help guide strategy and governance for impact-driven investments in distressed property redevelopment and high-potential start-ups. The fund’s mission is to empower low-income veterans and entrepreneurs by unlocking economic opportunity, revitalizing communities, and creating sustainable returns. Skills & Outcomes: • Impact Investment Strategy → Provide strategic oversight for fund allocation across property redevelopment and small business acceleration in Opportunity Zones. • Board Governance & Fiduciary Oversight → Support governance practices that ensure transparency, compliance, and long-term investor confidence. • Fundraising & Capital Access → Contribute to investor relations and fundraising efforts targeting institutional and mission-aligned capital sources. • Stakeholder & Community Engagement → Foster partnerships with municipalities, veteran organizations, and community groups to ensure holistic, inclusive outcomes. • Business Development & Acceleration → Advise on strategies for identifying and supporting veteran-led startups through structured incubation and mentorship programs. • ESG & Social Impact Measurement → Guide integration of social, environmental, and economic impact metrics into fund reporting and performance dashboards. • Influential Communication & Advocacy → Serve as an ambassador for the fund’s mission, championing economic empowerment for underserved veteran communities.

At UzObi, a value-based care platform, I lead strategy and innovation for a digital health platform that provides electronic “Medical Blueprints” to capture patient will and reduce costly, unnecessary ICU stays. Skills & Outcomes: • Digital Health Innovation → Designed an “Uber for Clinical Ethicists” platform to meet the shortage of ethics expertise. • Advance Care Planning & Clinical Ethics → Enabled patients to define care preferences, improving dignity and reducing ICU overuse. • Payer & Hospital Partnerships → Piloted with insurers and hospital systems to demonstrate measurable cost avoidance. • AI in Healthcare → Advanced exploration of AI decision-support tools for treatment reviews and plan optimization. • Healthcare Transformation Strategy → Positioned UzObi as a scalable solution to payer, hospital, and patient needs.

Founded and scaled DiaspoCare, a cross-border healthcare financing and digital health platform that enables diaspora families to pay directly for trusted care in Africa, while transforming pharmacies and clinics into efficient, tech-enabled primary care hubs. Skills & Outcomes: • HealthTech & FinTech Innovation → Built a 3-sided platform integrating patients, diaspora payers, and healthcare providers. • Digital Health Payments → Deployed secure diaspora-to-clinic payment rails, reducing misuse of remittances by up to 70%. • Diagnostic & Care Access Innovation → Introduced diagnostic kiosks (hPODs) and second-opinion telemedicine to expand affordable access. • Pharmacy Transformation & Care Redesign → Converted pharmacies into primary care centers, reducing what was once a 3-day patient journey into a 15-minute, seamless care experience. • Payer & Value-Based Care Strategy → Partnered with insurers to enable direct payer-to-provider models tied to outcomes. • Strategic Partnerships & Scaling → Onboarded 2,000+ clinics and pharmacies, owning the last-mile payment to providers; forged partnerships with payers, NGOs, and governments.

At IonIdeaAI (www.iondea.com), our mission is to help our customers transform their businesses through the application of latest digital technologies to achieve super-competitiveness and growth. As a Business Partner in IonIdeaAI, my primary responsibility is to ensure the success of customers that we engage with, and that I take responsibility for. Skills & Outcomes: • Digital Transformation → Guide clients in cloud, automation, and analytics adoption to improve agility and reduce costs. • AI Strategy & Implementation → Design AI roadmaps that deliver predictive insights, automation, and new revenue opportunities. • Business Development & Partnerships → Translate IonIdea’s technical capabilities into client outcomes, driving enterprise growth. • Innovation & Business Model Design → Help clients create new value propositions, revenue streams, and competitive differentiation. • Change Leadership → Build client alignment and governance systems that ensure adoption and measurable impact. By applying our 4E (Explore, Envision, Examine and Embark) service packages, my team and I help our customers identify opportunities for increasing business competitiveness, velocity, agility, efficiencies, productivity, quality, revenues, and profits; as well as for reducing labor, costs, and time-to-market. By implementing our I2I (Impress, Showcase, Primetime, Scrutinize, Orchestrate, Hawkeye, Educate and Inscribe) service packages, we help our customers successfully implement, monitor and support opportunities identified for business transformation through process redesign and the application technology accelerators. Details of our service packages are available in https://ionidea.com/packages/ From Idea to Execution… we are there for you!

As Chairman of Agricycle Global, I provided strategic oversight and governance for a mission-driven agribusiness dedicated to transforming agricultural waste into sustainable products across Africa and emerging markets. I guided the board through growth, investment, and partnership strategies, ensuring Agricycle balanced financial sustainability with social impact. Skills & Outcomes: • Board Governance & Leadership → Chaired board meetings, set strategic agendas, and ensured effective governance practices to guide the organization’s mission and growth. • Strategic Growth & Expansion Oversight → Directed board-level decisions on market entry, scaling operations, and developing new product categories in upcycled agriculture. • M&A & Partnership Strategy → Oversaw evaluations of acquisitions, joint ventures, and global partnerships to accelerate growth and impact. • Stakeholder & Investor Engagement → Built trust with investors, NGOs, and government partners, aligning stakeholders around Agricycle’s vision and financial sustainability. • ESG & Impact Oversight → Embedded sustainability, inclusivity, and social impact metrics into the company’s strategic priorities, ensuring measurable progress toward ESG goals. • Risk Management & Compliance → Guided board risk reviews across regulatory, financial, and market dimensions to safeguard enterprise resilience. • Global Market Strategy → Provided oversight for expansion across Africa and frontier markets, ensuring alignment with local ecosystems, regulatory frameworks, and community needs.

Directed business development for a synthetic biology company, building cross-sector partnerships to commercialize biotech innovations. Skills & Outcomes: • Strategic Partnerships → Structured and closed deals with animal health pharma and biotechnology leaders. • Biotechnology Commercialization → Translated R&D breakthroughs into scalable market solutions. • Innovation & Product Strategy → Developed go-to-market roadmaps for synthetic biology applications in healthcare, food, and consumer sectors. • Business Development & Deal Execution → Structured and negotiated complex partnerships that expanded revenue streams. • Market Intelligence → Identified growth opportunities across emerging biotech markets and competitive landscapes.

Partnered with the Chief Strategy Officer and executive team to design and execute a 5-year enterprise strategy that positioned Children’s Minnesota as a leader in digital transformation, growth, and innovation. Skills & Outcomes: • Strategic Planning & Execution → Co-led development of the 2021–2025 strategic plan, creating enterprise-wide alignment and measurable accountability. • Digital Health Transformation → Built the organization’s first integrated digital strategy, advancing telehealth, patient engagement, and digital front door initiatives. • Innovation Leadership → Established a cross-functional innovation team, implemented innovation models through training, accelerating pilots, collaborations, and partnerships with startups, universities, and corporates. • Business Development & Growth Strategy → Created operational structures to capture new opportunities, including expansion of specialty services and integration of acquisitions. • Intellectual Property & Commercialization → Advanced IP development and infrastructure, laying the groundwork for monetization of internal innovations. Created third-revenue stream for hospital through major technology out-licensing.

Led strategic IP management for a $125M innovation portfolio, creating over $1.2B in enterprise value. Built Cargill’s first enterprise-wide IP strategy, embedding innovation capture, portfolio optimization, value extraction, and risk management into business growth. Negotiated joint development with the world’s largest food & beverage companies, balancing value creation and protection. Skills & Outcomes: • Strategic IP Portfolio Management → Optimized patents, trade secrets, and trademarks to align with business growth and reduce costs. • Innovation Capture & Value Mapping → Established a rigorous process requiring innovators to define: why an idea was created, what value it delivers, how it will be protected, and how value is shared. • Partnerships & Joint Development → Structured co-development agreements with global F&B leaders, enabling faster market entry and shared ownership. • Commercialization & Licensing → Monetized non-core IP via out-licensing, cross-licensing, and IP-backed collaborations. • Market Intelligence → Built IP landscapes to identify competitive threats, new markets, and freedom-to-operate. • Risk & Compliance → Reduced litigation exposure through FTO analyses, trade secret protections, and IP training. • Business Strategy Integration → Used IP to drive premium pricing, create barriers to entry, and support M&A growth. • IP Valuation & ROI → Tracked portfolio performance, proving IP as a driver of financial outcomes.

NextPakk is a Minnesota-based start-up that focuses on the last-mile delivery of consumer goods in the USA and Canada. The company leverages the blockchain to track package delivery and to incentivize a network of third-party drivers with tokens.

Sandogame is a startup that uses gamification to teach intellectual property commercialization through deal making. I developed and commercialized one of the first and few intellectual property board games, PatentDeal. The game will be distributed to schools in Africa through various a non-for profit organizations.

Graduated from the Silicon Valley Founder Institute Chapter. The Founder Institute is the world's largest startup pre-seed accelerator.

• Authored more than 16 peer-reviewed scientific papers • Presented more than twenty research papers and seminars in both French and English

Merit Scholarship from the Government of Quebec

Published research in Canadian Journal of Pharmacology Beneficiary of Merit Scholarship from State of Quebec