Leadership

Angelo De Caro 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 Le Hors is Senior Technical Staff Member of Blockchain & Web Open Technologies at 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 secured 2nd rank in bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from BMS College of Engineering. He currently is a technical lead of the blockchain platforms at Walmart, India. His areas of interest are distributed systems, cryptography, 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. Prior to joining Walmart, he worked in the platforms security division at Intel and as protocol stack engineer at MediaTek.

He has been working on the system and algorithm areas for 10+ years, with interests on distributed system and data science. He loves open-source technologies and enjoys designing great products. Before joining Oracle, he was a research scientist at IBM.

Bobby 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 has a B.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.  In 2018 he joined ConesnSys and now works as a Lead Protocol Engineer focusing on Hyperledger Besu and Ethereum Mainnet.  Prior to ConsenSys he worked at Google and Oracle, and has previously worked in desktop GUIs, build tooling, and data transformation pipelines.  His favorite colors are green and orange.

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.

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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. 

He joined Fujitsu Laboratories of America in 2015. His current research interests are spread throughout general cryptography, with a current focus on cryptocurrency and applicable cryptographic techniques, lattice-based cryptography, and cryptographic primitives.

Her main responsibilities are to design and technically to lead the implementation of projects related to blockchain technology. She has always combined her work with teaching at Spanish universities about this technology. Maria Teresa is one of the main maintainers and the technical architect of a Hyperledger Lab, TrustID.

Mark proposed the Hyperledger Performance and Scale Working Group (PSWG) and has been the Chair of the PSWG since its inception. He has been involved with SPEC and the creation of several benchmarks. He has presented at several Linux Foundation events as well as the Red Hat Summit.

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.

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.

Arnaud Le Hors is Senior Technical Staff Member of Blockchain & Web Open Technologies at 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.

Christine leads J.P. Morgan’s global Blockchain team, tasked with setting a comprehensive blockchain strategy for the firm and its various lines of business, designing and driving the development of cutting edge technology products, collaborating with the blockchain and crypto ecosystem, and guiding clients on the journey. Previously, she led development of productionized credit risk tools in Global Wealth Management and held various sales & structuring roles across Commodities, Asset-Backed Securities, and Syndicated Loans.

She is a graduate of Brown University. Christine was recently named in Fortune’s The Ledger 40 Under 40 list of “the most impressive, young superstars transforming business at the leading edge of finance and technology.”

Dave Treat is the global co-lead of Accenture’s blockchain practice and serves as a client account lead for several leading financial services institutions.

He has over 18 years of experience in Financial Services split between consulting and industry roles. The early part of his career was primarily focused on retail banking, and cards and in the past decade he has focused on capital markets. Dave has experience and expertise in running strategy functions, innovation, strategic cost management, large-scale restructuring, customer relationship management, M&A, outsourcing & offshoring and process excellence.

Hiroki Suzuki is Senior Director of Middleware Business Unit at Fujitsu Limited, responsible for digital business solutions including blockchain initiative. He has 30 years of experience in software product strategy and cloud services. His recent activities were providing Fujitsu’s public cloud platform in 6 regions worldwide, led some startup companies acquisition and partner alliances. He is also leading some digital transformation projects at Fujitsu customers as well as Fujitsu internally by leveraging API management. Blockchain initiative is a part of his API ecosystem development.

Joseph Lubin is a co-founder of blockchain computing platform Ethereum and the founder of Consensus Systems (ConsenSys), a blockchain venture studio.

ConsenSys is one of the largest and fastest-growing companies in the blockchain technology space, building developer tools, decentralized applications, and solutions for enterprises and governments that harness the power of Ethereum. Headquartered in New York, ConsenSys also has a global presence, employing top entrepreneurs, computer scientists, software developers, and experts in enterprise delivery worldwide.

Lubin graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He worked in the Princeton Robotics Lab, at tomandandy music developing an autonomous music composition tool, and at private research firm Vision Applications Inc. building autonomous mobile robots.

As a software engineer and consultant, Lubin worked with eMagine on the Identrus project and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund with a partner. He held positions as Director of the New York office of Blacksmith Software Consulting, and VP of Technology in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. Through these posts, Lubin focused on the intersection of cryptography, engineering, and finance.

Switching gears, Lubin moved to Kingston, Jamaica to work on projects in the music industry. Two years into his musical endeavors, Lubin co-founded the Ethereum Project and has been working on Ethereum and ConsenSys since January 2014.”

Joshua Q. Satten is the Senior Partner for Wipro’s Blockchain Practice in North America. He serves as the leader and evangelist for Blockchain in North America and is responsible for acting as a face to the industry where he represents Wipro in various industry forums including EEA and Hyperledger as well as helps lead Wipro’s Global Blockchain Lab & Center of Excellence. He works closely with Fortune 500 companies on Blockchain-related architecture, and implementations across all industries.

With over 18 years of global diversified experience, Joshua has been previously instrumental in creating, managing, and scaling transformational growth as well as leading operations & regulatory support for top-tier financial services & consulting companies. Joshua specializes in the banking & Financial Service industries, Fintech, Fund Services, Supply Chain, and Innovation & Design.

His areas of subject-matter expertise include Blockchain, Trading Operations, Financial Services, and Enterprise Business Architecture. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics & Sociology from Fordham University, an Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration from Fordham University, a Master’s degree in Urban Affairs from CUNY-Hunter College, and is currently working towards his PhD in Management & Innovation Theory. He has been an active industry participant, speaker, and author for years having worked with and chaired working groups with ISDA, ISITC, SIFMA AMG (Asset Manager’s Group), and the MBA (Mortgage Banker’s Association).

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.

Makot Shirai is the General Manager of Enterprise Business Unit at NEC Japan.

Makot Shirai has 30 years of experience in solution and service development especially for retail industry. He has provided store systems which is dedicated to increase customer experience and operational excellence including Omni-channel function for big retailers. He has worked not only in Japan but also in Asia Pacific and US. He lived in Texas from 2012 to 2014 to deliver retail platform and worked as senior solution manager.

Now he is working for all enterprise market: manufacture, finance, trade, transport, and retail industry.

His team is responsible for creating innovative services with new technologies which include Cloud, AI, IoT, Biometrics, 5G Network, Blockchain etc.  Also he is responsible for Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Managed Service.

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.

Behlendorf was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. He has also served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation since 2013. He was the founding CTO of CollabNet and CTO of the World Economic Forum.

Daniela Barbosa serves as Vice President of World Wide Alliances for Hyperledger, where she is responsible for the full lifecycle management of Hyperledger’s membership community while overseeing the broader industry and business community outreach and network growth. Daniela has developed and led growth and innovation strategies for more than 18 years with a background working with financial services, media, and enterprise software. Daniela has led both partnerships and alliances teams as well as marketing and has been responsible for driving global partnerships, OEM integrations, market leadership, and global brand awareness.

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.

Dorothy Cheng works in Marketing & PR.

Jessica is the Sr. Manager of Marketing Communications for Hyperledger.

Julian Gordon is the VP of Asia Pacific.

Karen Ottoni is the Director of Ecosystem for Hyperledger.

Min provides operational management to scale the growth of an open source project community and to coordinate the activities of the project governance and various committees at The Linux Foundation.

Ry is the Community Architect for Hyperledger.

Dorothy Cheng works in Marketing & PR.

Jerry Lee is the Community Director of Korea.

Jessie Wang is the Operations Manager of China.

Julian Gordon is the VP of Asia Pacific.

Keith Chan is the Community Director of Greater China.

Maggie Cheung is Operations Manager of Asia Pacific.

Sueyoung Chang is the Ecosystem Manager of Korea.