Paula Patrice is a Vogue Magazine-featured fashion model and Time Magazine-featured technologist who has lived her entire life as an entrepreneur.

Ms. Patrice is the founder/inventor of HairThread Accessories, named Beauty Product of the Year by Allure Magazine.

She is founder/developer of the Nutrisleuth iPhone App, named a Top-10 Health App by Time Magazine. As owner of NYC-based technology development firm PPweb Technologies, Ms. Patrice leverages her experience intersecting advertising, art direction and branding with web design and programming to produce custom websites, web platforms and mobile applications for her clients.

Pioneering a new information platform focused on the food allergic community, Ms. Patrice's latest venture is a ground-breaking social solution for people with special dietary needs.

In her "other career", Paula Patrice is a renowned model with Ford Modeling Agency, featured in numerous TV commercials, fashion ads and beauty campaigns. She guides aspiring models and actors by offering advice on her blog and consults with parents who are navigating their kids' careers.

She is the Director of Technology for Curves for Change, a not-for-profit organization of fashion models who use their celebrity to spotlight women-empowering charities.

Always a pioneer, she's been blogging on her namesake website, paulapatrice.com, since 1999.

A food allergy sufferer herself, Ms. Patrice aims to improve the lives of others by innovating food safety technologies that benefit both consumers and CPG brands. She further hopes to inspire women globally to embrace technology, voice their diverse passions and forge their own unique niches in the world.