Richard Lackey

“Freedom isn’t the right to do anything you want. Freedom is the opportunity to be all you were intended to be.” RL

Littleton, Colorado, United States

About

WHAT We Do: The World Food Bank builds integrated agricultural ecosystems based on regenerative practices. This empowers local communities to grow better quality food while creating a more resilient and profitable food system. We are on a mission to have food commodities treated as investable assets. WHO Should Invest: • Family Offices • Wealth Managers • Endowments • Foundations • Sovereign Wealth, Hedge, Pension & Funds Of Funds • Financial Institutions • Accredited Investors Your Goal: 1. Bring an end to world hunger and lift millions out of poverty 2. Get exposure to a new asset class, food, and achieve an uncorrelated return. 3. Mitigate portfolio risk and hedge against market volatility, food price inflation, and systematic risk 4. Add an asset that mimics but outperforms high-yield bonds but less dependent on interest rates WFB Enhances The Value Chain By: • Supporting farmers with access to training, input financing, offtake guarantees, and market access. • Standardizing product and market data, WFB increases transparency, dependability, and quality. World Food Bank Ecosystem: • WFB is for-profit with a benevolent mandate to unify and enhance the entire agricultural value chain. • WFB serves as a leading source for connecting farmers and markets. • WFB operates like a traditional bank, but with food as the primary asset class. • WFB seeks to diversify across several food commodities • WFB is an asset-backed investment company. Conctact Us: [email protected]

Experience

  • Member Board of Directors at Institute of Applied Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (IAAIR)
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Working on next generation SLMs and multi-agent systems supporting regenerative agriculture and the Zero Hunger Formula platform.

  • Member Board of Directors at World Agriculture Forum
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Chairman at The World Food Bank
    Jun 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

    The World Food Bank is a unique for profit enterprise that brings together institutional investment, governments, non-governmental organizations, and universities to leverage technologies in extended shelf life commodity storage to resolve the greatest challenges in food safety, food security, resiliency and sustainability.

  • Chief Investment Officer at Trade Oracle Group
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    The Trade Oracle Group has been building powerful ML and AI-powered trading systems since 1996. Our core technologies remain highly powerful and are now being leveraged to predict future events and market moves for institutional clients.

  • Board Member at Newdea
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    Newdea provides a digital backbone for governments that drives economic convergence as a platform for catalyzing economic growth and prosperity. www.newdea.com