Leadership

Arnaud has been working on standards and open source for over 25 years and has been involved in every aspect of the open technology development process: technical, strategic, political, and legal. Arnaud was editor of several key web specifications including HTML and DOM and was a pioneer of open source with the release of libXpm in 1990. Arnaud currently is the main representative for IBM at W3C, a member of the Hyperledger Technical Steering Committee, a contributor to Hyperledger Fabric, and a member of the European Blockchain Observatory.

Arun leads the blockchain platforms team at Walmart Global Tech India. His areas of interests are cryptography & security, distributed systems and building scalable cloud solutions. He is a maintainer and an active contributor to the Hyperledger projects, also a co-lead of Hyperledger India Chapter.

Bobbi is responsible for moderating the  Learning Materials Development Working Group’s bi weekly meetings, setting agendas, maintaining the Confluence Wiki Page  and developing the documentation standards for Hyperledger Projects and Special Interest Groups.  Recently edited the Linux Foundation EdX course, “Introduction to Business Blockchain” LFs171s .

Bobbi opened Ledger Academy, a blockchain training Center  at Tiger Labs in Princeton, NJ whose mission is to consult and train enterprises on Blockchain Technologies. Ledger Academy sponsors Ledger Consulting which is a solution provider for large enterprises looking to adopt blockchain technology. She is the organizer for the Hyperledger Princeton Meetup, Princeton Blockchain Meetup  and Ledger Academy’s Blockchain Fundamentals Meetup which has over 1500.

Bobbi won the Government Blockchain Association (GBA) 2020 Award for Social Impact  for directing the BCPrinceton’s Blockchain Project, The Giving Chain,  which created a decentralized model to change the local charity giving.

Bobbi holds ( 2) Undergraduate degrees,  BS in Computer and Decision Science, and  BS in Management and Organizational  Behaviors.  In 2002 she received a Masters in Business Education. She holds a NJ Teaching Certification in Business.

Dave Enyeart is a software engineer from IBM, and maintainer and release manager on the Hyperledger Fabric project. Dave graduated from Princeton University with a B.S.E. in Operations Research. He has spent his career working on enterprise software projects with a focus on data architecture, B2B, and business process management solutions. When enterprise blockchain came into existence, Dave started working on Hyperledger Fabric 1.0, and shortly thereafter became a maintainer and release manager for the project.

Jim Zhang is co-founder and Head of Protocol Engineering of Kaleido. He is a maintainer of the Hyperledger FireFly project, member of the Ethereum Enterprise Alliance Technical Spec Workgroup and has contributed to Quorum and Hyperledger Besu open source code bases. Jim was a maintainer of the Hyperledger Fabric project, responsible for the node.js SDK and node.js chaincode support. Before starting Kaleido, he held a STSM role as IBM’s blockchain platform lead architect. Jim has written popular articles on the topics of comparing consensus algorithms and comparing Enterprise blockchain protocols. He has 15 years of experience in building a diverse range of enterprise systems including cloud services, enterprise mobile, and Java EE.

Marcus is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland working in the area of Blockchain Security and Applications. His research is focused on secure distributed systems using confidental computing.

Peter is a technology architect manager at Accenture where he is one of the maintainers of the top level Hyperledger project called Cactus that aims to be an enterprise grade framework for blockchain integration/interoperability.

Timo Glastra is the Co-Founder, CTO at Animo Solutions and a maintainer for Hyperledger Aries.

Tracy Kuhrt is a Senior Technology Architect within Accenture’s Blockchain and Multiparty Systems group with 20+ years of experience covering the entire software development lifecycle. Tracy has been involved in the blockchain space since 2015, with a focus on Hyperledger. At Accenture, besides architecting and delivering solutions for clients, Tracy is educating the next group of Blockchain and Multiparty Systems Technology Architects, is a frequent speaker on the topic, and is an advocate for inclusion and diversity in the technology. Tracy drove Accenture’s efforts to open source its Blockchain Automation Framework and Blockchain Integration Framework, which is now Hyperledger Cactus. Prior to joining Accenture, Tracy was a Hyperledger Community Architect.

Dave Treat is a Senior Managing Director, leading Accenture’s Metaverse Continuum Business Group as well as the Technology Incubation Group which includes its Blockchain and Multi-Party Systems business which he formed in 2015, along with its Extended Reality, and Quantum Computing businesses. He is also the Global Technology Lead for Capital Markets and has nearly 25 years of experience in Financial Services.  Dave serves on the Board of Directors on Hyperledger—a Linux Project, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Global Blockchain Business Council (Board Chair), Interwork Alliance, Linux FINOS, and the ID2020 Alliance.  Dave is a member of the World Economic Forum C4IR Global Blockchain Council, Digital Currency Governance Consortia, and Project Advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Digital Identity Initiative and the Known Traveler Digital Identity project.  He is a program advisor for the Chamber of Digital Commerce, and co-Chairs the New York Fintech Innovation Lab. Dave holds over 101 blockchain patents and pending patents and was named one of the Sci-Tech 100 2018: The Architects of the Future by Silicon Republic.

Heather is Co-founder and CEO of Indicio, the market leader in developing open source Trusted Digital Ecosystems to verify and exchange high-value information using verifiable credentials. Under her leadership, she has driven the company’s growth strategy and overseen its customer expansion and product development, including the launch of Proven™, the first complete market product for implementing and scaling open source decentralized identity. Heather is a long-time champion for privacy-preserving cybersecurity technologies, and advises governments and global NGOs on decentralized identity applications. Heather holds graduate degrees from Columbia and Johns Hopkins, and did her undergraduate studies at Willamette.

Kei Fukuta is the Director of Blockchain Planning Department at Hitachi.. Kei Fukuta has 30 years of experience in solution planning and development for various kinds of business sector including financial institutions. He has experiences working globally, working in the US for 4 years and working in China for 3 years to develop new IT solutions in those countries.

Rakesh Mohan is Director of Blockchain at IBM where he leads the development of blockchain technologies, including Hyperledger Fabric and IBM’s blockchain products such as IBM Blockchain Platform, Food Trust and Transparent Supply. Previously, he led IBM’s global research team on developing cognitive solutions for Commerce, Marketing and Supplychain. Dr. Mohan holds over 30 patents and has published in numerous conferences, journals and books. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur, India.

Robert Palatnick is a Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation at DTCC, where he has responsibility for driving technology innovation at the firm and leads a number of key technology initiatives, including cloud, automation, machine learning, big data analytics and distributed ledger technologies. He is also responsible for collaboration with clients, regulators, fintech vendors and academia to research and advance technology innovations across the financial services industry.

Prior to this role, Rob served for over a decade as Chief Technology Architect, overseeing the firm’s global IT strategy, architecture, standards and engineering design of the systems and applications that support the firm’s broad range of products and services. During his career at DTCC, Rob also served as an Application Development Domain Lead, Chief Administrative Officer of IT and CIO of FICC. Prior to joining DTCC, Mr. Palatnick was Vice President, Development and Systems, at Security Pacific Corporation Sequor Software Services.

An active technology voice in the industry, Rob has been a featured guest speaker at key conferences worldwide and is often quoted in the press. He currently serves as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project, a collaborative effort to establish, build and sustain an open, distributed ledger platform across industries.

Rob received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Buffalo and is an alumnus of the David Rockefeller fellowship.

Shingo is leading FUJITSU’s development team of Hyperledger CACTUS, and he is also involved in several blockchain PoC projects with innovative external partners.

Sophia Lopez is a Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Kaleido, an award-winning digital transformation platform and a leading global blockchain-as-a-service. Kaleido uniquely offers cross-cloud, cross-region and hybrid networks for on-premise deployments, as well as the highest level of compliance for regulated industries including ISO 27K and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications.

Prior to Kaleido, Sophia led the IBM Blockchain Platform team with executive responsibility for the open-source portfolio and commercialization of the blockchain technology, launching the industry’s first blockchain managed service and two subsequent generations of managed blockchain services. Previously, Sophia held various positions in IBM as a Profit and Loss (P&L) Leader responsible for multi-billion dollar lines of business for enterprise systems. Sophia shaped the business vision and strategy, drove growth in mature segments, and incubated successful new technology business lines.

Sophia has an engineering undergraduate degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Tracy Kuhrt is a Senior Technology Architect within Accenture’s Blockchain and Multiparty Systems group with 20+ years of experience covering the entire software development lifecycle. Tracy has been involved in the blockchain space since 2015, with a focus on Hyperledger. At Accenture, besides architecting and delivering solutions for clients, Tracy is educating the next group of Blockchain and Multiparty Systems Technology Architects, is a frequent speaker on the topic, and is an advocate for inclusion and diversity in the technology. Tracy drove Accenture’s efforts to open source its Blockchain Automation Framework and Blockchain Integration Framework, which is now Hyperledger Cactus. Prior to joining Accenture, Tracy was a Hyperledger Community Architect.