Ine is an inspirational leader. One of the co-founders of ubloquity, she is highly skilled at managing complex, global IT projects. Last Thursday she was recognised as a leading innovator at a gala event in Belfast at the Women in Business Awards.
Under her COO leadership, Ine has been instrumental in the scoping and project delivery of ubloquity’s secure borders solution for Fujitsu, and the establishment of the provenance blockchain for one of the world's largest food manufacturers.
She mentors and guides more junior staff in the team, including award-winning Ellen Marks, who puts her success in no small part down to the support that Ine has given during her time at ubloquity.
We all think the world of her yet she is so humble in return.
Under Ine's leadership ubloquity is operationalising blockchain technology across global supply chains, optimising the accuracy and traceability of critical data to enable goods and services to flow more seamlessly.
Using multifactor verification, Ine and her team are able to create a single source of the truth, establish new levels of trust between producers, manufacturers, hauliers, retailers, government agencies and regulators.
With Ine's deep supply chain expertise and experience, she blends best-in-class technology with cutting edge science to prove, authenticate, validate and ensure supply chain integrity, removing unnecessary friction, speeding up processes, and increasing the security of assets throughout their lifecycle.
Ine came up with the idea to design, build and test a new end-to-end digital chain of custody, utilising distributed ledger technology (DLT) to seamlessly connect the dots in a major food manufacturer’s supply chain. A world first. Her aim was to give the in-house compliance team an accurate, high-definition view of its chilli spice supply chain in real-time, via an online portal, utilising user-friendly dashboards.
Ine and her team mapped the entire supply chain from the drying yard - where batches of chillies are given a QR code - all the way through to final bottling. Although the organisation had the ability to establish traceability, relevant data was held in three separate and distinct systems. Retrieving it was time-consuming and inefficient.
In cases where a safety risk was identified further upstream, it was difficult to locate and isolate a specific impacted batch of chillies. Each entity in the chain could only see the data relevant to them, but it was not shared horizontally or from end-to- end. Also, the data wasn’t immutable. Records could potentially be overwritten, altered, or even tampered with.
Ine created the ability to tie the data together and access it at the touch of a button in milliseconds. The hidden and hard to reach data is now visible to every participant in the connected supply chain. As new information is written to the blockchain, everyone is updated at once - and displayed on an operational and user-firendly dashboard.
The ubloquity platform that Ine has created unlocks three key benefits:
• more efficiency in the supply chain – eradicating manual input by switching to scan and auto input, which is more accurate and efficient;
• proof of provenance and authenticity – providing the opportunity to charge a premium price for products and protect brand reputation;
• risk reduction – the immediate ability to recall a batch from supply, with the potential to save millions of dollars for each incident or issue.
Previously, had a regulator sought information on a specific batch of chillies - for instance the
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