Experts

Dr Maksym Zavershynskyi has more than 10 years of industry experience, most recently at Google where he worked on applied Machine Learning. Scaling decentralized applications.

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Maksym Zavershynskyi

Peter Smith is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blockchain, a financial technology and data company that has empowered millions of users across the globe to store and transact digital value quickly and without costly intermediaries. Under his leadership, Blockchain has become the market leader in digital currency and distributed ledger technology. By 2016, Blockchain’s software has powered over 100M transactions around the world.

Peter is a 2016 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and noted thought leader in the FinTech space, having been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, TechCrunch, and spoken at conferences around the world including Techcrunch Disrupt, Money 20/20, Web Summit, Collision, Wired Money, among many others.

Prior to co-founding Blockchain, Peter lived, studied, and worked in the US, Europe, MENA, East Africa, and Asia. When he isn’t basking in the glow of a laptop, you can find him either reading or out running, trekking, surfing, and climbing up or skiing down a mountain.

Peter Smith

Mrinal Manohar is a Venture Partner with Reflective Ventures. He has been personally investing in the crypto space for six years. Prior to this, he was a principal and the Technology/Media/Telecom sector head of a ~$1b long-only hedge fund. Prior to that, he was a private equity associate at Bain Capital in Boston, and was an associate consultant at Bain and Company in Boston. He has an MS from Carnegie Mellon University and has been passionate about computer science since he began programming at age 11.

Mrinal Manohar

Arthur Breitman is the creator of Tezos, a public blockchain enabling decentralized governance through self-amendments.

Previously, Arthur was a research engineer for Google X and Waymo. In his early career, he worked as a quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arthur graduated from the École Polytechnique and the Courant Institute of NYU where he studied applied mathematics.

Arthur Breitman

BM. Explore free market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property for all.

My name is Daniel Larimer and I am the founder of BitShares. My mission in life is to find free market solutions to secure life, liberty, and property for all.

The purpose of this blog is to help create a free society by encouraging people to join our community which is centered around Bitshares, a next generation fully decentralized crypto-currency exchange. I use Austrian Economics to engineer the economic incentives which make freedom and non-violence profitable.

Daniel Larimer

Entrepreneur, Product Geek, and Investor. Chartered Financial Analyst.

After a career in finance, Robert decided to help make the world a better place. One part web designer, one part finance jock, he spends his time dreaming of ways to make privacy mainstream.

He holds an Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and has worked at awesome financial institutions.

Robert Leshner

Lawrence Nahum is a technology entrepreneur, Bitcoin expert and executive with a strong focus in bringing innovative and disruptive tech to market.

Lawrence is working at Blockstream as Chief Architect. Previously, he was CEO and founder of GreenAddress (https://greenaddress.it), a prime, Bitcoin services company that offers the industry's first and most advanced multi-signature Bitcoin wallet.

Before getting involved with Bitcoin and Blockchain Lawrence was a technology Vice President at OTC financial services leader Markitserv where he led various products and technology teams and directed other strategic initiatives for the company.

Lawrence holds a first class BSc Computer Science with Distributed System from London City University.

Specialties: bitcoin, innovation, technology, internet, mobile apps, full development cycle management and team values.

Lawrence Nahum

Stani Kulechov is Founder and CEO at Aave, Leading Blockchain Startup on Decentralized Lending. FinTech & Blockchain in London, PwC Top 50 Blockchain Startups.

Stani Kulechov

Marek Olszewski is a co-founder and CTO at Celo. Earlier, he co-founded Locu, a machine learning venture-backed company that was acquired by GoDaddy. He is also an MIT PhD alumni and a former Facebook Fellow and has previously worked at Google, Microsoft Research and Sun Labs.

Marek Olszewski

Dietrich Ayala is IPFS Ecosystem Growth Engineer, Technical PM for IPFS Browser Integrations at Protocol Labs. Interested in the web and browsers, decentralization and distributed networks, IoT ethics and design of physical and room scale computing, connected device manufacturing life cycle, mobile Web as first-class development platform, device power/data consumption and optimization, optimization for slow/rare/unreliable network conditions, mentoring & technical academic partnerships.

Maksym Zavershynskyi

Research Engineer at NEAR.