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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.
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Edwin Liu
Edwin Liu is the Co-Founder, CGO at X World Games. He is a senior marketing specialist and financial analyst with a decade-long accumulation of experience in various business portfolios and investments, also a crypto investor since 2013. He responsible for managing and growing Cardano Foundation's Asian & N. America communities beyond 100k. Actively contributed and participated in multiple blockchain projects' incubation and development, including ones that were later invested by industry-recognized VC funds.
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.
Jeremy Wood
Jeremy Wood is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Input Output, and Co-Founder of Cardano. He was formerly an Executive Assistant at 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.
Anthony Di Iorio
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.
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.
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.
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.
Babajide Fashola
Babajide Fashola is the global Head of financial infrastructure at Cardano.
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.