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Paul Ford served as Vice President of Developer Relations at Chia and Chief Marketing Officer of Storj Labs. Previously, he was the head of marketing for IBM Cloud (formerly SoftLayer) and vice president of SendGrid, where he promoted the development of developer relations and commercial applications.
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Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent, the most widely used protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing over the internet. He left BitTorrent in August 2017 to found Chia Network, where he has served as Chairman and CTO since its founding, and has been CEO since June 2019. Bram is one of the world's top-selling puzzle designers.
John Quinn
John Quinn is the Founding Partner and CIO at Decentral Park Capital, managing $130 million of digital assets. He is also the founder of Storj Labs and a recovering investment banker from Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and Flemings.
Ali Shadle
Ali Shadle is the Vice President of Operations at Chia Network. Prior to Chia, Ali was an early product manager at the unicorn Honey that recently sold to PayPal for $4B. During her 10+ years in tech she also conducted research under Evan Reas and Dr. Anders Ericsson.
Barbara Liau
Barbara Liau is Founder of Nomad. Formerly, she worked as a lead developer at Storj and as PR Specialist for the United States Military.
James Prestwich
James Prestwich is Founder of Summa, a blockchain interoperability and cross-chain communication company. Watch collector. Curry enthusiast. Formerly, he was a founder at Storj; an open-source project building decentralized, secure, and efficient cloud storage service. I'm a developer, entrepreneur, activist, and curry enthusiast. I co-founded Storj Labs Inc. in 2014. I'm currently the founder and CEO of Indefinite Integral Incorporated, a startup developing cross-chain financial contracts. My side projects include some scripts around lightning, and a definitive hierarchy of curries from around the world. I like to write about cryptocurrencies, ethics, technology, and watches. I speak regularly about tokens, cryptography, and ethics.
Gene Hoffman
Gene Hoffman is CEO & President of Chia.net. Formerly CEO & co-founder Vindicia, eMusic, PGP, PrivNet. Defender of the Bill of Rights. UNC Basketball & Darkside Ultimate Alum. Recognized by the San Francisco Business Times with the “40 under 40 Emerging Leaders Award” in 2012, Gene has deep experience with building companies that disrupt markets. Prior to Vindicia, Gene co-founded eMusic in January 1998 and served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a Director. As head of eMusic, Gene was featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine as a member of the July 1999 E-Gang, and named one of the 100 most influential entrepreneurs in technology in Upside Magazine’s November 2000 Elite 100. Gene led the acquisition of eMusic by Vivendi/Universal in June 2001. Before founding eMusic Gene was Director of Business Development and Director of Interactive Marketing of Pretty Good Privacy. Gene joined Pretty Good Privacy after it acquired PrivNet, Inc., an Internet privacy software company, where he was co-founder, Director and Executive Vice President.
Brian Henhsi
Brian Henhsi is Head of Strategy at Movement Labs, having previously held positions at Sui/Mysten Labs and Chia. He graduated from Tsinghua University.
Atikh Bana
Atikh Bana is the co-founder and CEO of Acctual and previously worked at Stripe and Storj.
Matthew Hammond
Matthew James Hammond is Head of growth at Connext, previously founder of Summa (acquired by Celo), Director of marketing at Storj Labs, and enterprise digital marketing specialist at Adobe. In particular, he specializes in marketing and advertising strategy, marketing research, etc.