Akilah Scharff
Akilah Scharff is an emerging technology product consultant, a business coach, racial equity facilitator, and mentor. VISSEN, her consulting practice, partners with highly creative companies to improve operational efficiency in an effort to grow business units, and transform emerging tech-leaning ideas into sustainable and profitable realities, while designing for equity throughout.
Akilah’s experience spans several years in product innovation and R&D in both corporate and nonprofit sectors in the areas of AR/VR, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, biometrics, UX/UI/CX, rapid prototyping, and business development.
Akilah is ignited by the prospect of building that which does not yet exist, whether it is a product, approach, or framework - Especially if it solves a pain point in our everyday lives, or helps to unburden the existence of systemically misrepresented groups.