Technical Oversight Committee
Arnaud Le Hors
Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Open Technologies: Blockchain, Edge Computing, Web, IBM
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 S M
TOC Vice Chair
Staff Software Engineer, Walmart Global Tech India
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 Muscara
Business Development Executive, Ledger Academy
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.
David Enyeart
Architect, IBM Blockchain
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
Co-Founder, Kaleido
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 Brandenburger
Research Staff Member at IBM Research Europe
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 Somogyvari
Software Product Architect Manager, Accenture
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.
Stephen Curran
Technical Architect, DevOps and Blockchain at Cloud Compass Computing, Inc. / Quartech Systems, Ltd.
Timo Glastra
Co-Founder, CTO at Animo Solutions
Timo Glastra is the Co-Founder, CTO at Animo Solutions and a maintainer for Hyperledger Aries.
Tracy Kuhrt
TOC Chair
Associate Director, Blockchain and Multiparty Systems Architecture, Accenture
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.
Venkatraman Ramakrishna
Senior researcher in the IBM Research Lab in Bangalore
Venkatraman Ramakrishna is a senior researcher in the IBM Research Lab in Bangalore, India. As an IBMer, he has also been on a temporary assignment as a research staff member at the IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation in Singapore. Ramakrishna’s current research area is blockchain and smart contracting technology, with a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger interoperability.
Governing Board
David Treat
Accenture, Governing Board Chair
Senior Managing Director, Global Metaverse Continuum Business Group & Blockchain Lead
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 Dahl
Indicio, General Member Representative
Heather is Co-founder and CEO of Indicio.
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
Hitachi
Director of Blockchain Planning Department, Hitachi
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
IBM
Director of Blockchain, IBM
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
DTCC
Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Research and Innovation, DTCC
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 Fujimoto
FUJITSU
Manager of Blockchain Economy Project, Data & Security Research Laboratory, FUJITSU
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
Kaleido, General Member Representative
Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Kaleido
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
Accenture, TOC Chair
Associate Director, Blockchain and Multiparty Systems Architecture, Accenture
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.
Staff
Benjamin Thomas
Marketing Leader
Benjamin Thomas leads marketing for Hyperledger.
Ben brings to Hyperledger Foundation a proven track record of depth-charging brand and digital marketing strategies for a variety of businesses to include: B2B and B2C startups as well as venture capital-funded businesses. As a marketing and startup leader for the past ten years, he has worked closely with the founders of large VC incubator firms, media agencies, and multiple startups to implement best practices for go-to-market and growth marketing initiatives.
Daniela Barbosa
Executive Director
Daniela Barbosa serves as General Manager Blockchain, Healthcare and Identity at the Linux Foundation and as Executive Director at Hyperledger with overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, expansion and execution of Hyperledger’s mission. Daniela has more than 20 years of enterprise technology experience, including serving for four years as Hyperledger’s Vice President of Worldwide Alliances with responsibility for the member community as well as broader industry and business community outreach and overall network growth. She started her career at Dow Jones where she worked with the top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer and energy, to architect and deliver enterprise systems, ontologies and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Daniela became involved in the early web 2.0 community helping to advance the concept of digital identity and data portability as the pathway for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications.
David Boswell
Senior Director, Community Architect
David Boswell is the Senior Director of Community Architect for Hyperledger.
David Boswell is a community expert who has worked with Mozilla, Open Networking Foundation, NASA, Sun Microsystems, Nokia and more on their community strategies. Through these past experiences he has expertise with both launching a new community as well as scaling existing communities. He is an O’Reilly author who has co-authored a book about Mozilla development and has also written several articles about community building. He has a Masters degree from Columbia University where he studied how technology can be used for public benefit.
Emily Fisher
PR & Content
Emily leads the day-to-day PR and content operations for Hyperledger.
Emily leads the day-to-day PR and content operations for Hyperledger
Hart Montgomery
CTO
Hart Montgomery serves as the CTO of Hyperledger.
Hart has extensive experience in blockchain and cryptography, and previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu Research where he helped lead Fujitsu’s efforts in Hyperledger. Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford under Dan Boneh, where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow. Hart has numerous academic publications and patents in cryptography and blockchain and brings a wealth of experience in these areas to the Hyperledger Foundation.
Julian Gordon
VP Asia Pacific
Karen Ottoni
Sr. Director of Ecosystem and Strategic Initiatives
Karen Ottoni is the Sr. Director of Ecosystem and Strategic Initiatives for Hyperledger.
Karen Ottoni is the Sr. Director of Ecosystem and Strategic Initiatives for Hyperledger.
Min Yu
Program Manager
Min Yu is the Program Manager for Hyperledger.
Min provides program management to scale the growth of an open source project community and to support the activities of the project governance and various committees at The Linux Foundation.
Ry Jones
Community Architect
Ry Jones is the Community Architect for Hyperledger.
Ry is the Community Architect for Hyperledger.
Sean Bohan
Community Architect
Sean is the Community Architect for Hyperledger.
Over the last 20+ years Sean has worked in digital innovation, from CDRoms and websites to digital video, social networks, strategy, and product development. A member of the team that contributed what is now Hyperledger Indy, Sean has been directly involved or cheering-on Hyperledger from the sidelines since 2017. He recently joined as a Community Architect, working with David and Ry to help the projects and community scale.
Tomaz Sedej
Ecosystem Manager
Tomaz Sedej is the Ecosystem Manager for Hyperledger.
Tomaz is also a Guest Researcher at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on the implications of enterprise blockchains for inter-organizational relationships. He is also working with the researchers from MIT Center for Information System Research, investigating the topics of Digital Ecosystems and Digital Partnering. Before starting to research enterprise blockchains, he worked at various multinational companies, such as L’Oréal and Coca-Cola, within the areas of digital transformation, process optimization, and financial controlling.
Asia Pacific
Asia Pacific is supported by The Linux Foundation’s affiliate, Linux Foundation APAC, Ltd. The staff of Linux Foundation APAC assist our Hyperledger and community and members in the local region.
Dorothy Cheng
Marketing & PR
Dorothy Cheng manages Asia Pacific Marketing & PR for Hyperledger.
Dorothy Cheng manages Asia Pacific Marketing & PR for Hyperledger.
Jerry Lee
Community Director, Korea
Jerry Lee is the Community Director of Korea.
Jerry Lee is the Community Director of Korea.
Jessie Wang
Operations Manager, China
Jessie Wang is the Operations Manager of China.
Jessie Wang is the Operations Manager of China.
Julian Gordon
VP Asia Pacific
Keith Chan
Community Director, Greater China
Keith Chan is the Community Director of Greater China.
Keith Chan is the Community Director of Greater China.
Maggie Cheung
Operations Manager, Asia Pacific
Maggie Cheung is the Operations Manager of Asia Pacific.
Maggie Cheung is Operations Manager of Asia Pacific.
Sueyoung Chang
Ecosystem Manager, Korea
Sueyoung Chang is the Ecosystem Manager of Korea.
Sueyoung Chang is the Ecosystem Manager of Korea.