Addison McKenzie is an American engineer, consultant, and blockchain personality. He is popularly known as the Founder and President of SUKU, a Blockchain-based Ecosystem that aims to make supply chains more efficient, transparent, and collaborative by offering a supply-chain-as-a-service platform to enterprises.^[7] He is also the Co-founder of Citizens Reserve.^[11]

Early Life & Education

There is not much information available about his early life but his educational details suggest he was born and brought up in the United States. He is a graduate of Vermont Technical College, Randolph, Vermont, where he obtained a degree in Mechanical engineering in 2002.^[1]

Career

Addison started his professional journey in the real estate industry. He has worked for well-known housing companies in the United States. He then gradually shifted his focus to consultancy.^[2]

Real Estate

Addison started his career in 2003. He worked as Principle of the housing company ' Home Sweet Homes' in Burlington, Vermont for five years from September 2003 to December 2008.

He joined another real estate company 'Roy's Housing' in the same city in April 2006 and worked as a Principle there for more than 2.5 years till December 2008.

He shifted to Scranton, Pennsylvania to work for Clayton Homes, the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the United States owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. Addison served as Sales Executive for over 13 months before leaving in November 2009.^[3]

Consultant & Advisor

Addison returned to Burlington, Vermont, and joined Performance Modular Homes as a Principal Consultant. He served them for 17 months till May 2010. He moved to Metro Detroit to serve Volante International in June 2010. He stayed in Detroit for almost two and a half years.

In October 2012, He joined Zrii, a company that helps people around the world to generate extra income through a compensation plan that incentivizes enrollment over product sales, and exaggerated product claims. He served Zrii as a Senior Consultant till April 2016.^[4][5]

In July 2015, he also became an advisor for Agility Sports, Atlanta and he is still associated with them.

SUKU by Citizen Reserves

Addison entered the blockchain space in late 2016. He co-founded SUKU with James Bower and Shannon Coble. It is a product of Citizen Reserves, a company that is transforming businesses with blockchain, one platform at a time. SUKU is located in Los Gatos, California, and has around 50 employees. Addison is also president of SUKU and working on making it an on-demand, open, decentralized software distribution model which consists of applications and services that are utilized by supply chains.^[6][7][8][9]

Personal Life

Addison currently lives in San Francisco Bay Area, CA. He is not that active on social media, but he has a Twitter account with 98 followers as of September 2022.^[10]