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Anthony Di Iorio is the founder and CEO of Decentral and Jaxx, as well as an early co-founder of Ethereum and a technical expert and thought leader in the industry. Over the past thirty years, he has founded over a dozen companies and invested millions of dollars in various industries, including blockchain. In late 2013, he funded and participated in the founding of Ethereum. Currently, he is the founder and CEO of Decentral, an innovation center and software development company based in Toronto, focusing on distributed technology. Decentral is the manufacturer of the digital asset platforms Jaxx Classic and Jaxx Liberty. He is knowledgeable in cryptocurrency, blockchain, finance, and business, and currently serves as an advisor to 15 companies. As the Chief Digital Officer of the TMX Group, the parent company of Canada's largest stock exchange, he is exploring ways to make exchanges operate more efficiently through blockchain technology. He has served as a lecturer in the Master's program in digital currencies at the University of Nicosia and has taught related courses at the University of Toronto Law School.
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Kristof Gazso
Kristof Gazso is founder & ceo at Pimlico. Presively he was pm & researcher at Nethermind, ethereum core dev / researcher at Ethereum. Kristof Gazso graduated from UCL.
Joseph Lubin
Joseph Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of ConsenSys, a blockchain application development firm. He also helped to establish the non-profit Ethereum Foundation and the VC fund ConsenSys Mesh, which invests in decentralized blockchain applications. Lubin holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University. He is building the decentralized Web 3.0 on Ethereum.
Christopher Maree
Christopher Maree is a research partner at Hack VC (part-time), he was the technical lead at UMA, he also founded the regitree, and he was a member of the Devcon V Scholar.
Gavin Wood
Gavin Wood, a London-based blockchain expert, is the founder of Parity Technologies, a company that develops cutting-edge blockchain applications. Gavin is widely recognized as one of the co-founders of Ethereum, having coded its first functional implementation. He is also the co-founder of Grid Singularity, a company that aims to develop a decentralized energy management platform. Gavin is passionate about all things Web 3.0 and has dedicated his career to advancing the field of blockchain technology.
Charles Hoskinson
Charles Hoskinson is a technology entrepreneur and mathematician based in Colorado. He studied analytic number theory at Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder before getting into cryptography through industry exposure. He has founded three cryptocurrency-related start-ups – Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK – and has held various positions in the public and private sectors. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in 2013. Currently, his projects are aimed at educating people about cryptocurrency, being an evangelist for decentralization, and making cryptographic tools more accessible to the mainstream. This includes leading the research, design, and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that was launched in September 2017.
Mihai Alisie
Mihai Alisie is a co-founder of Ethereum and Bitcoin Magazine, and is currently focused on making the Akasha Project a reality. He has been actively involved in the blockchain technology space since 2011 when he, along with Vitalik Buterin, created the world's first Bitcoin-centric publication, Bitcoin Magazine. He served as Editor-in-Chief for the magazine until late 2013, when he joined Vitalik in founding the Ethereum project. In the early days of Ethereum, Mihai played a key role in establishing the business infrastructure and legal framework critical for the Ethereum "pre-sale" campaign, leading the Swiss efforts. Following the successful Swiss setup, he oversaw Ethereum operations as Strategic Manager and Vice-President of the Ethereum Foundation until late 2015, when he shifted his focus to making the AKASHA dream a reality.
Amir Chetrit
Amir Chetrit is a professional computer scientist who graduated from an Israeli university. He made his first fortune in real estate development before dropping out in 2008 to pursue his career in real estate. In December 2013, V God invited Chetrit to be part of the Ethereum creation team. At the co-founders meeting in June 2014, Chetrit was criticized by Ethereum developers and other co-founders for his lack of commitment to Ethereum, and he decided to resign.
Jeffrey Wilcke
Jeffrey Wilcke came into contact with Ethereum while working on the first ICO Mastercoin in the Netherlands and has been very interested since then. So, he decided to quietly write an implementation page in Google's Go language. In early 2014, he was added to the list of founders along with Gavin Wood. However, after experiencing the hard fork of Ethereum, a series of hacking incidents, and the birth of his son, Wilcke handed over the supervision of Geth to his right-hand man, Peter Szilagyi.
Jake Lang
Jake Lang is the Co-Founder/CTO at Spearbit. Presively he was Core Developer at Ethereum, Compiler Engineer at ETC Labs.
Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik Buterin is a Russian-born Canadian programmer and writer who is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum. He became involved with cryptocurrency early on, co-founding Bitcoin Magazine in 2011.