Today we are joined by Memme Onwudiwe, co-founder and executive vice president of Legal and Business Intelligence at Evisort, a company using AI and advanced contract lifecycle management functions to help companies negotiate, organize, and extract data from their contracts. While still a student at Harvard Law, Memme helped build Evisort with three of his peers, through the school’s innovation lab. Inspired by their experiences doing contract work at legal internships, they developed a software that structures data from contracts so that attorneys don’t have to do so manually. Today, Memme and Evisort CEO Jerry Ting lecture together at Harvard, sharing their experiences as legal tech entrepreneurs, and teaching law students how they can follow a similar path. Memme also has a strong interest in space law, having written the peer-reviewed article "Africa and the Artemis Accords: A Review of Space Regulations and Strategy for African Capacity Building in the New Space Economy," which focuses on the potential impacts of frameworks such as the Artemis Accords on African Union states in their space development efforts. Additionally, Memme is co-owner of the African Museum of the Metaverse, which features some of the largest collections of art from top African and Black artists.
In our wide-ranging discussion, Memme talks about why he made the leap to founding a company, his thoughts on generative AI, teaching a course at Harvard, and his fascination with space law.
