DRIFE, a decentralised blockchain-based ride-hailing platform, has announced that former Uber director Daniel Mangabeira Dantas has joined Drife as a Strategic Investor and Policy Advisor. As a former political advisor to the UK Ambassador to Brazil as well as one of the architects of the ridesharing regulatory debates in Brazil and Latin America, Mangabeira has over 20 years of experience in regulatory, policy, government and institutional relations and most recently served as Uber’s Head of Policy for Latin America.
Daniel Mangabeira stated, “I have for a while now been an enthusiast of blockchain-based technologies as an enabler of decentralized projects”, commented Daniel. “But more than that, I have long been an enthusiast of projects that directly impact the lives of people. That largely explains why, when I first came across the DRIFE project and DRIFE’s whitepaper, I immediately wanted in. I truly believe that DRIFE’s business model, supported by token-based blockchain-intensive governance protocols, can come to strengthen ridesharing businesses as we know it today. It is the sort of innovation that, beyond conflicting, has what it takes to add great value to the ride-hailing ecosystem at large.”
CEO and founder Firdosh Sheikh commented, “We are proud to partner with Daniel and are happy to have him sharing some of his incredible tech-related skills and experience. We, at DRIFE, always seek to tag along with like-minded individuals who back our values and beliefs, and of course that can also help us stay on the cusp of innovative thinking. We believe that this partnership will help us to progress on our path to a completely fair, green, and sustainable global mobility infrastructure.”
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