Leadership

Angelo De Caro is one of the architects and developers of Hyperledger Fabric.

Angelo joined IBM Research – Zurich in May 2015. His research is focused on the Hyperledger fabric and the privacy and cryptography of the blockchain.

Angelo received his PhD in Computer Science in 2013 from the University of Salerno, in Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Carlo Blundo and Prof. Giuseppe Persiano.

After his PhD, he worked with Dr. Tatsuaki Okamoto at NTT, Japan, in 2013 and with Prof. Michel Abdalla at École normale supérieure, France, in 2014-2015.

Angelo has been also engaged in several EU projects including ECRYPTII (European Network of Excellence in Cryptology II) and TREDISEC (Trust-aware, REliable and Distributed Information SEcurity in the Cloud).

His research interests are in theoretical cryptography and its applications to the blockchain and the cloud.

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.

Danno Ferrin is a Principal Software Engineer at Hedera

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.

Grace joined ConsenSys two years ago and she focuses on partnerships, product launch initiatives, and community management activities. Grace led the initiative to gain approval and onboard Hyperledger Besu, the Java-based Enterprise Ethereum client, into the Hyperledger community and managed the project’s activities to help it gain active status. Prior to joining ConsenSys, Grace was a consultant at KPMG in the financial services industry. 

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.

Kamlesh Nagware is the Chief Technology Officer at Snapper Future Tech and Co-Lead Hyperledger India chapter. He plays an active role across the Hyperledger community,  contributing to the Climate Action & Accounting SIG, Trade Finance SIG, and Hyperledger Global Forum Committee. He was named by Fintech News as one of the top 30 Indian blockchain influencers who are helping blockchain adoption and influencing the global community.

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Nathan George is a Senior Director of Engineering, Protocol at Kiva and a maintainer for the Hyperledger Indy project. Before Kivia, he was a Senior Software Engineer and Architect at Evernym. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Utah State University and a Master of Business Administration from Brigham Young University.  Nathan is the chair of Hyperledger Indy’s Agent working group, championing the company’s engagement in the open source community through Hyperledger Indy and is a contributor to distributed identity and blockchain standards at the Decentralized Identity Foundation and the W3C.  His development experience spans diverse systems including robotics, GIS, file systems, big data analytics, and attribute-based security systems.

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.

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.

Troy guides SecureKey’s open platform development team and leads technical strategy for our DLT-backed identity and authentication efforts. He is an active contributor to the Hyperledger community by serving as a maintainer for Aries Framework Go and Fabric SDK Go. He strongly believes in leveraging distributed ledger technology and standards to solve business and trust problems. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto.

Archana Sristy is the Sr. Director of Engineering for Blockchain Platforms at Walmart. She has over 20 years of technology experience in Financial, Automotive and Retail industries. At Walmart she leads a team of engineers that design and implement blockchain at scale, powered by Hyperledger, for driving supply chain transparency in multiple business areas such as Food Safety and Health & Wellness.

Prior to Walmart, Archana held consulting positions in information technology with General Motors, Experian, ADP Wilco and others. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Computer Science from International Institute of Professional Studies, India.

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.

Hanna Zubko is a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in technology for the financial services industry. She is the co-founder and CEO of IntellectEU Inc, a global leader in digital finance and emerging technologies focused on DLT, blockchain, AI and Quantum Computing. Hanna led IntellectEU to become a SWIFT business partner in the US in 2013, managing relationships with over 2700 prospects and customers embodying SWIFT connectivity, and advanced integration services. Under Hanna’s leadership IntellectEU became a founding member of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger in 2016 and built partnerships with leading industry players (Digital Asset, R3, VMWare, IBM, Oracle and others) providing enterprise-grade DLT and Blockchain solutions to financial services clients and market infrastructures. IntellectEU offers a suite of solutions for blockchain infrastructure management (Catalyst Blockchain Platform), insurance fraud detection (ClaimShare), hyper-personalization in the wealth management industry (VELMA) and mission critical cross-border payments tracking (payLOCATOR). Since 2017 Hanna served as Vice Chair for Hyperledger Marketing Committee and Co-Chaired Blockchain for Social Impact working group.  For three years in a row Hanna served as a judge at SWIFT Innotribe Competition for Fintech StartUps. Hanna is a member of Entrepreneurs Organization and Forbes Business Development Council.

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.

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.

Tyrone leads J.P. Morgan’s firm-wide Blockchain & Crypto Program and is responsible for identifying and creating innovative blockchain-based products and solutions for J.P. Morgan’s businesses and clients, and for engaging with the industry at large in order to provide a holistic blockchain strategy for the firm. Tyrone was previously a Senior Blockchain Product Manager in J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center of Excellence and was also the Product Lead for Quorum, an open-sourced Ethereum-based blockchain platform built for Enterprise use.  Tyrone sits on the Board of Directors of The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and prior to joining the blockchain team in 2015, Tyrone was a software engineer within the Credit Markets business and also spent several years managing and delivering large strategic programs across various businesses within J.P. Morgan, covering Front, Middle and Back Office risk and trading systems.

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 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 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 leads the day-to-day PR and content operations for 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 is the VP of Asia Pacific.

Karen Ottoni is the Sr. Director of Ecosystem and Strategic Initiatives for Hyperledger.

Lanaya Nelson comes to the Linux Foundation with a background and expertise in insurance & risk technology business development.  She is passionate about the importance and potential of open source consortiums to our future as well as the art of weaving the public/private partnerships needed to build this collective future sustainably and ethically.  Lanaya has worked across the gamut – startups to Fortune 100 companies and has cultivated a thriving network of respected leaders across various industries and government affiliates.  In the rare moments she’s not bringing people together for potential collaboration, Lanaya enjoys reading and running as well as spending time with her friends, dog, and rescue cats in southern Vermont.

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 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 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.