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Marlon Weems is a former finance professional with over thirty years of industry experience. He began his career in Arkansas, where he founded the state’s first Black-owned investment bank. He later spent more than a decade on Wall Street organizing and managing several securities trading businesses.
After leaving the industry, Weems consulted as a subject matter expert in fintech and use cases for blockchain applications in finance and healthcare.
He has authored numerous essays, white papers, and reports on various aspects of the capital markets, the economy, and American culture. His work has been featured in a variety of digital publications. The Journeyman, his Substack newsletter has thousands of subscribers.
Marlon and his wife Shannon are co-owners of Soulstice Botanicals, a mobile plant store that specializes in pop-up events in and around the Topsail Island area.