Meghan McCormick 2023 Speaker

Co-Founder & CEO

Oze

Biography

Meghan McCormick is a systems thinker and strategist, passionate about designing solutions that bring real value to customers, corporations, and communities. She has spent her career focused geographically on African markets and functionally on innovation strategy. She started her work as a Community Economic Development Volunteer in the Peace Corps in Guinea. During her service, she started Africa’s first eReader library, the BiblioTech. She also founded Guinea’s first business accelerator, Dare to Innovate, and scaled it to be French-speaking Africa’s most active small business accelerator. DTI has trained over 8000 future entrepreneurs and created more than 500 jobs. Currently, Meghan is the Co-Founder & CEO of OZÉ, a fintech company that equips African entrepreneurs to make data-driven decisions to both improve their business performance and access capital. 97% of businesses using the app actively in 2019 were profitable and/or growing. Outside of her entrepreneurial endeavors, Meghan worked as an Innovation Strategist at Doblin, the innovation unit of Monitor Deloitte. In this capacity, she developed new offerings for Fortune 100 companies including a bank with a large footprint in Africa and received inventor accreditation on a patent for a new business model for a global industrial giant. Additionally, she is a contributor to Forbes Women where she covers women building high-impact organizations across Africa. Meghan has an MBA from MIT where she was a Legatum Fellow for Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School where she was a Cheng Fellow in the Social Innovation and Change Initiative and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow focused on West Africa. She is an expert in human-centered design, social entrepreneurship, and experiential curriculum design.