Listen to this articleBelow is our recent interview with Nabyl Charania, CEO & Chairman of Rokk3r:
Q: For those who haven’t heard of it, what is the best way to describe Rokk3r?
A: Rokk3r is a company builder, providing a range of solutions in business strategy (Think Phase), technology development (Cobuild), and growth services (Scale). Rokk3r transforms industries and companies as well as creates new ones, combining deep entrepreneurial experience and specialized skills across industries and business functions with a focus in the U.S and emerging markets, initially Latin American countries. Rokk3r’s combination of world-class strategy and execution sets it apart from traditional consulting companies. Our in-depth knowledge of disruptive and exponential technologies, operations, new business, and distribution models, help our clients improve their performance by delivering exponential growth. Rokk3r’s higher, aspirational purpose is to harness the global collective genius to cobuild companies that change the world. Our context for this purpose is centered on 2 key observations: 1) The number of people coming online globally continues to rise with expert predictions showing a fully connected global population in less than a decade, and 2) the intersection of exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, synthetic biology, and robotics are changing the fabric of every single industry, while at the same time generating new ones.
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Q: What makes Rokk3r unique in the world of business consulting?
A: Rokk3r’s deep understanding of exponential technologies and their impacts on every industry, combined with our world-class execution capabilities is a key differentiator in the business consulting world. Every aspect of the value chain in every industry imaginable is feeling the impact of technology in one form or the other. In some cases, the impacts are amplified presently, and in other cases the impacts are deceptive. Through Rokk3r’s co-building approach, partners benefit from a global ecosystem of business and exponential technology experts to ensure solutions are developed and executed, and companies are created to succeed and thrive in the digital age.
Q: What is your vision for the future of business? How can companies better prepare for that future?
A: The future of business, regardless of industry, will require a mindset that understands global connectedness and the role of technologies. Similar to Nike hiring a technologist as its new CEO (as one of many similar examples), traditional companies as well are recognizing that no matter what their core brand delivers, a complementary understanding of technology is what ensures they thrive in the future. Similarly, companies of all sizes need to ensure that there is a complementary understanding of technologies within their DNA to allow them to survive and be successful.
Q: How do you help clients? Where are those clients?
A: From idea-to-exit, Rokk3r provides a suite of exponential technology transformation and execution services related to company building and scaling for corporations, investors and entrepreneurs. For corporations, Rokk3r brings a foundational understanding that innovation should occur on the edge of the organizations so as not to disrupt successful aspects of the business. Innovating on the edge allows Rokk3r to work with key transformational leaders in clients’ organizations to develop innovative solutions and create exponential companies that help these organizations survive and thrive in the digital age. Our partners and clients are across North and South America, including Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Mexico.
Q: Why do you focus on Latin America?
A: The LatAm region has experienced profound growth in recent years and continues an upward trajectory as a result of increased internet connectedness and the resulting innovation opportunities. We’re already seeing, for example, Ebanks in Curitiba for end-to-end payments processing, Colombian on-demand delivery unicorn Rappi, grocery delivery startup Cornershop in Chile and Mexico, and the list goes on. In key areas such as finance, Latin America also has one of the largest unbanked populations leading to a proliferation of businesses needed to service this gap. With Rokk3r’s vast network across Latin America, we are able to bring a global innovation lens and execute with local-required knowledge to help further put Latin America on the global innovation map.
Recommended: Q: What does the future hold? Where is the company headed?
A: We know a few very essential characteristics of the future when it comes to innovation. First, Internet connectedness will continue to rise across the globe. Second, the intersection of exponential technologies is changing industries and creating new ones. Rokk3r’s idea-to-exit, global ecosystem is the infrastructure that corporations, investors, and entrepreneurs around the world can rely on to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution. One example of this is Rokk3r’s recent acquisition of Bullfrog Ventures, whose Insurance Portal, in partnership with Chubb Latin America, includes more than 80 Insurtechs, and their Insurtech platform includes 16 curated insurtechs from all over the world. Similarly, Rokk3r is empowering its infrastructure across multiple industries to help lead the world when it comes to digital transformation and company building in the future.
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