Our guest, Anne-Fleur Andrle, is the co-founder of Jack and Ferdi, a companion application that helps travelers identify what's most authentic about a destination while offering innovative ways to the user to give back to the local community.

This Bleisure App also provides data on opportunities to have a positive impact while on the road (run and walk itineraries, indigenous music, and curated local charities to give back to), while not forgetting the primary reason for the business trip...conducting business. The app also offers data on local business etiquette, learning opportunities, and great work/meeting spaces. This well-rounded app will help business travelers combine business and leisure travel and adopt the growing bleisure travel lifestyle.

Anne-Fleur graduated from UTC – a French University - as an engineer with a double major in biomechanics and scientific communication. She pursued her education at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo with a focus on cardiac regeneration and biomedical engineering. And she was the first woman to graduate from the Biomedical Engineering department of the Graduate School.

A Dual citizen of France and America, Anne-Fleur never misses an opportunity to explore the world - starting with her own neighborhood.

A newborn baby and a newborn business - this is an exciting startup story!

Please follow and connect with Anne-Fleur and her beautiful business Jack and Ferdi here:
Website: https://www.jackandferdi.com/
Twitter: @afandrle and @jackandferdi
LinkedIn: Anne-Fleur Andrle https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-fleur-andrle/ and Jack and Ferdi https://www.linkedin.com/company/jack-n-ferdi/
Instagram: Jack and Ferdi https://www.instagram.com/jackandferdi/ and Anne-Fleur https://www.instagram.com/afandrle/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jackandferdi/

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Ande ♥

Anne-Fleur Andrle Bio
French born and coming from Brittany, I am a bold female entrepreneur and living an extraordinary life. Extraordinary does not mean rich, luxurious or doing nothing but drinking mojitos on an exotic beach. In my book, extraordinary means daring to live life the way I intend to, which means being free and humble, ambitious and bold, respectful of my peers and environment as well as curious to learn anytime I have the opportunity.

I am convinced it is our responsibility as entrepreneurs to give back to our community and for social impact to be deeply rooted in the DNA of our enterprises. This is one of the reasons why we incorporated Jack and Ferdi as a PBC (Public Benefit Corporation).

I am a person of many passions and I believe their common themes are freedom and creation. What I truly love doing is traveling, being in, on or near the water, cooking, writing and reading (especially comics and graphic novels).

My passion for travel and discovery, and certainly my personal experience as a business traveler, lead me to cofound Jack and Ferdi in 2016. The goal of this one-of-a-kind mobile app was to close the cultural gap in business travel and to provide business travelers with a real tool to maintain work-life balance on the road. Closing the cultural gap on business travel was a problem I often faced during my own experiences.

Prior to this, I created the North American division of AMA XpertEye (a Ubisoft sister company), established it in Cambridge, MA and dedicated myself to its success as its Executive Director.

I graduated from UTC (France) as an engineer with a double major in Biomechanics and Scientific Communication. I continued my education at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo, NY with a focus on cardiac regeneration and biomedical engineering. I was the first woman to obtain a graduate degree from the Biomedical Engineering Department.

I worked in R&D in the field of regenerative medicine successively with both L’Oréal and INSERM (aka French NIH) in Paris before joining Olea Medical in Boston, where I worked as a Research and Applications Engineer on stroke and tumor imaging.

For several years, I hosted a radio show which I co-created "Les Echos de l’Innovation". Our objective was to publicize science to the greater public and debate about the latest innovations, their impact on society and to create a communication channel for experts from various horizons (from academics to Nobel Prize recipients). In parallel, I have been writing - both in French and in English - pretty much ever since I can remember. I wrote my first novel at age 8, and since then never really stopped. I have been an author for the website and magazine "French Quarter Mag", have had multiple blogs, and worked as a freelance editor, translator and voice-over artist.

Dual citizen (French and American), I never miss an opportunity to explore and particularly love being near, on or in the water – whether it is on a catamaran, with my snorkel or scuba gear. I love to explore the world - starting with my own neighborhood.