Fawn Weaver has been a serial entrepreneur for more than 25 years. As the CEO and founder of
Grant Sidney, Inc., she continues to grow her multimillion-dollar real estate and investment
portfolios. Weaver is a popular TED speaker, a USA Today and two-time New York Times
best-selling author, and has appeared in hundreds of popular magazines, radio, and morning
shows around the world, including FOX Business, the TODAY Show, The New York Times, CBS
This Morning, Good Morning America, CNBC, and The Washington Post. Her revealing How I
Built This segment with Guy Raz on NPR had the internet abuzz for months, as did her 2024
Forbes Self-Made Woman profile.

Weaver is one of only five African American women to found and lead a $1B+ company in U.S.
history. She serves as the CEO of Uncle Nearest, Inc., a company she founded in 2016. Uncle
Nearest Premium Whiskey is the fastest-growing American whiskey brand in U.S. history, the
best-selling Black American-founded spirit brand of all time, and was the most award-winning
Bourbon of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. The super-premium brand has earned more than
1,200 awards and was named "World’s Best" two years in a row. Her 458-acre Nearest Green
Distillery is the seventh most visited distillery in the world.

She is certified as a Corporate Director by Harvard Business School, graduated summa cum
laude from the University of Alabama, and holds an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from
Bluefield State University. She serves on the board of Endeavor Group Holdings (NYSE: EDR).