Meet The Women Of The Blockchain: Susan Akbarpour, CEO and co-founder of Mavatar Technologies

“If you are woman, don’t be afraid of entering an army of men if you have to. I never thought about my gender first, working in many male dominated workplaces. I’ve only compared my capabilities with theirs.”

I had the pleasure of interviewing Susan Akbarpour the CEO and co-founder of Mavatar Technologies, the company behind mCart. mCart is a blockchain-based omnichannel platform that makes the world around us shoppable, allowing our enterprise customers to utilize content and data to engage with influencers and shoppers to drive sales.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! What is your “backstory”?

For over 30 years, I have created and invested in innovative products and businesses in technology, media and retail, which has led me to currently residing as the CEO and Co-Founder of Mavatar. I founded Mavatar in 2011 based on my research in graduate school, soon after receiving my MS in Management from Stanford University in 2010. Mavatar’s “decentralized marketplace and shoppable content publishing” solutions provide retailers and media companies with a new way to measure the convergence of data…