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LEADERSHIP & STAFF
Meet our leaders
Our leadership team is deeply committed to shaping the strategic direction, projects, and community standards of our organization. They uphold the highest principles of open source and open development, ensuring a transparent, collaborative, and sustainable future for all involved.
Staff
Governing Board
Technical Advisory Council
Asia Pacific
Gabor Gurbacs
Founder & CEO - OpenAssets
Gabor Gurbacs
Founder & CEO - OpenAssets
Gabor
Gurbacs
is
the
Founder
and
CEO
of
OpenAssets
and
Senior
Strategy
Advisor
at
Tether
seasoned
entrepreneur
technologist
and
Wall
Street
veteran
who
built
the
first
Bitcoin
ETF
in
the
and
first
industry
standard
digital
asset
indices
as
well
as
pioneered
and
negotiated
leading
digital
asset
investing
and
market
structure
policies
and
standards
with
global
regulators
Gabor
studied
mathematics
sociology
and
German
and
held
positions
at
Williams
College
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
and
Budapest
University
of
Technology
and
Economics
Gabor
is
long-time
supporter
of
open-source
technologies
and
standards
Daniela Barbosa
Executive Director
Daniela Barbosa
Executive Director
Daniela Barbosa serves as General Manager of Decentralized Technologies at the Linux Foundation and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust. She has overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, expansion, and execution of LF Decentralized Trust’s mission. Previously, she spent seven years in leadership roles at Hyperledger Foundation, driving the collaborative development of enterprise-grade blockchain and identity technologies by a global community. She is a leading voice for the power of openly developed decentralized technologies to optimize critical infrastructure for efficiency, privacy, and inclusivity.
Daniela has more than 20 years technology experience growing companies and communities and advancing adoption of business-critical software. She started her career at Dow Jones where she worked with the top global brands across various sectors, including finance, consumer and energy, to architect and deliver enterprise systems, ontologies and semantic web solutions. In the early 2000s, Daniela became involved in the early web 2.0 community helping to advance the concept of digital identity and data portability as the pathway for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications.
Bob Blessing-Hartley
Chief Technical Officer - Shielded Technologies
Bob Blessing-Hartley
Chief Technical Officer - Shielded Technologies
Bob
Blessing-Hartley
is
the
Chief
Technology
Officer
at
Shielded
Technologies
He
brings
over
two
decades
of
experience
in
enterprise
systems
business
integration
cloud
computing
and
blockchain
technology
Before
joining
Shielded/IOHK
he
served
as
Head
of
Solution
Architecture
at
Kaleido
and
while
at
IBM
he
was
Systems
CTO
for
Blockchain
Chief
Architect
for
IBM
Hyper
Protect
Cloud
Services
and
the
CTO
for
IBM
Remote
Labs
Throughout
his
career
Bob
Blessing-Hartley
has
led
development
support
and
services
teams
in
creating
innovative
Web3
and
Web2
solutions
that
address
enterprise
regulatory
security
and
compliance
needs
Sean Bohan
Community Architect
Sean Bohan
Community Architect
Over the last 20+ years Sean has worked in digital innovation, from CDRoms and websites to digital video, social networks, strategy, and product development. A member of the team that contributed what is now Hyperledger Indy, Sean has been directly involved or cheering-on Hyperledger from the sidelines since 2017. He is now a Community Architect of LF Decentralized Trust, working with David and Ry to help the projects and community scale.
David Boswell
Senior Director, Community Architect
David Boswell
Senior Director, Community Architect
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.
Marcus Brandenburger
Research Staff Member - IBM Research Europe
Marcus Brandenburger
Research Staff Member - IBM Research Europe
Marcus is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland working in the area of Blockchain Security and Applications. His research is focused on secure distributed systems using confidental computing.
Rob Dawson
General Member Representative CTO, Consensys
Rob Dawson
General Member Representative CTO, Consensys
Rob
has
over
20
years
building
and
leading
teams
building
software
He
has
background
in
software
development
and
completed
research
masters
degree
in
cryptography
Rob
joined
Consensys
in
2017
and
helped
lead
the
development
of
the
Hyperledger
Besu
client
before
stepping
in
to
the
role
of
CTO
for
Consensys
Software
At
Consensys
he
helps
guide
the
amazing
team
of
technologists
towards
building
the
software
that
powers
web3
Rob
is
excited
for
the
future
and
optimistic
for
the
world
web3
can
help
us
be
part
of
Hendrik Ebbers
Principal Engineer - Hashgraph & TAC Vice Chair
Hendrik Ebbers
Principal Engineer - Hashgraph & TAC Vice Chair
Emily Fisher
PR Lead
Emily Fisher
PR Lead
Emily leads the day-to-day PR and content operations for LF Decentralized Trust.
Jessica Gonzalez
Technical Community Architect, Hiero
Jessica Gonzalez
Technical Community Architect, Hiero
As the Technical Community Architect for the Hiero project, Jessica bridges technical complexities with community needs, creating inclusive and productive environments for developers and contributors within the project's ecosystem. She brings over 8 years of experience at the Linux Foundation, where she served as a Release Engineer for over eight years. Her background also includes roles as a Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc. and Cyanogen, and as a Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies.
Julian Gordon
VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East
Julian Gordon
VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East
Julian is an accomplished business, sales and technology leader and advocate for accelerating innovation through the use of open source, building technology ecosystems, and the transformational potential of blockchain, decentralized technologies, AI/LLM and cybersecurity. Julian has an extensive background in business, sales, finance and strategic development with experience in multinational and start-up technology companies across Asia.
Results-driven with excellent leadership and management skills and in-depth business and technology knowledge, especially in blockchain/Web3, AI, financial services, cybersecurity and big data. Possesses clarity of vision, strong, solution-focused planning and execution skills, interpersonal skills, contacts, and cultural understanding. 20+ years Asia experience.
Christina Harter
Associate Program Manager
Christina Harter
Associate Program Manager
Christina
provides
strategic
program
management
to
open
source
projects
ensuring
operational
excellence
advancing
governance
objectives
and
driving
initiatives
that
strengthen
community
growth
at
The
Linux
Foundation
Ry Jones
Senior Community Architect
Ry Jones
Senior Community Architect
Ry Jones serves as the Senior Community Architect at LF Decentralized Trust, where he contributes to the development and growth of the community. His role involves fostering collaboration within the global ecosystem​, and administrating the developer communities.
Kanchan Kaur
Group lead, Protocols - Consensys
Kanchan Kaur
Group lead, Protocols - Consensys
Kanchan Kaur is the Group Lead for Protocols at Consensys, responsible for the company’s core Ethereum protocol efforts, including Ethereum R&D and the Besu and Teku client teams. With a background in open-source cryptographic engineering and several years of experience advancing protocol development within the Ethereum ecosystem, Kanchan focuses on building secure, reliable, and standards-based infrastructure for decentralised networks. She is committed to open collaboration, transparent governance, and helping guide the technologies that underpin trusted and interoperable systems.
Enrique Lacal
Full Stack Engineer - Kaleido
Enrique Lacal
Full Stack Engineer - Kaleido
Full Stack Software Engineer working on Blockchain at Kaleido!
Previously lead a team of 6 software developers across multiple timezones to deliver a key component in Watson Orchestrate at IBM
Recently graduated from the University of Surrey where I received the best grade in my cohort. I have a strong interest in deep learning, and built a real-time camera-based perception system for Self Driving cars as my final year project.
Previously at IBM, I was a member of the Swift@IBM team which actively develops Kitura, a server-side Swift framework. I was solely tasked with designing and implementing Swift-Kuery-ORM, an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) for the framework. Alonngside, I maintained a code generator written in NodeJS which generates a fully fletched application as a starting point for user to deploy using docker in the cloud. Furthermore, had exposure to OpenAPI, NodeJs, and Jenkins.
I have strong experience with Python and Java and Python as part of projects created in University.
Sophia Lopez
- General Member RepresentativeFounder and President - Kaleido
Sophia Lopez
- General Member RepresentativeFounder and President - Kaleido
Sophia Lopez is Founder and President of Kaleido, an award-winning Web3, blockchain, and digital assets platform that provides scalable and secure infrastructure to enterprises globally. Its clients include the world’s largest banks, top healthcare and insurance networks, gaming companies, 80% of the world’s supply chain leaders, top retail companies, organizations such as SWIFT, World Bank, and IMF, along with 100s of global enterprise networks. Sophia helped launch the IBM Blockchain Platform, the industry’s first blockchain managed service. She held executive P&L responsibility for the blockchain product portfolio. Previously, Sophia held multi-billion dollar P&L executive roles at IBM for enterprise software and hardware lines of business. Sophia currently serves on the Hyperledger Foundation Governing Board and is a senior advisor for Web3 to McKinsey & Company. Sophia serves as an advisor to startups, helping facilitate Web3 masterclasses and blockchain sessions at Davos, Milken Institute, SIBOS, HIMSS and other industry leading events, and providing mentorship in Web3 programs such as the ConsenSys Tachyon accelerator. Sophia has an engineering degree from Harvard University and MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.
Kevin Millikin
Principal Technical Architect at Shielded Technologies
Kevin Millikin
Principal Technical Architect at Shielded Technologies
Kevin
is
programming
language
implementer
working
on
the
Compact
language
used
on
the
Midnight
blockchain
He
previously
worked
on
Python
tooling
and
on
JavaScript
implementation
Hart Montgomery
CTO
Hart Montgomery
CTO
Hart has extensive experience in blockchain and cryptography, and previously worked in blockchain and cryptography research at Fujitsu Research where he helped lead Fujitsu’s efforts in Hyperledger.  Prior to Fujitsu, Hart received a Ph.D. in cryptography at Stanford under Dan Boneh, where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow. Hart has numerous academic publications and patents in cryptography and blockchain and brings a wealth of experience in these areas to LF Decentralized Trust.
Diane Mueller
Strategic Advisor (Open Source Development) - Hedera
Diane Mueller
Strategic Advisor (Open Source Development) - Hedera
Diane led Community Development for Red Hat's Hybrid Cloud Platform focusing on cross-community collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and driving both customer and developer community initiatives to ensure the success of OpenShift, the world's leading Open Source Container Platform along with Operators, OKD, OpenStack and other Cloud Native initiatives at Red Hat.
She serves as a co-chair, of the OKD Working group, the Community Distribution of Kubernetes that powers Red Hat OpenShift. https://okd.io
Diane was the founder and executive director of OpenShift Commons, based the ecosystem-based open source community model that focuses on cross-community collaboration and creating healthy engaged peer-to-peer connections, learn more about OpenShift Commons here: http://commons.openshift.org
She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and manufacturing systems at F500 corporations for over 30 years. She believes deeply in the transformative power of open source to drive the development of innovation that benefits both enterprises and humanity at large.
Diane believes strongly in giving back to the communities locally and founded GetMakered Labs (http://www.getmakered.com) to help launch hyper-local makerspaces to make technology more accessible and help connect people to new technology by making magical interactive experiences possible anywhere.
She is long-time XBRL evangelist (www.xbrl.org) and supporter of Open Government and Transparency initiatives and having served on both the XBRL International Steering Committee and the Best Practices Board, chairing the software interoperability working group and the XBRL Rendering Technical Working Group, and has been a past member of the RIXML.org working group.
She was named one of the top 100 Cloud Professionals on Google+: http://getvoip.com/blog/2014/04/23/top-100-cloud-pros-google and one of 2015 Top Ten Women in Cloud http://cloud-now.org/top-10-women-in-cloud-2015/
Shyam Nagarajan
Governing Board Treasurer, Chief Operating Officer - Hedera
Shyam Nagarajan
Governing Board Treasurer, Chief Operating Officer - Hedera
Shyam is a distinguished leader in emerging technology, with over 20 years of experience in scaling AI, blockchain, and digital transformation. He has held key leadership roles at IBM, where he led responsible AI and blockchain initiatives, driving triple-digit growth and helping position IBM as a leader in enterprise blockchain services.
He also played a pivotal role in developing IBM's COVID pass solutions, which were adopted by NYC and reached over 12 million users, and led the growth of IBM’s Blockchain and Digital Assets business. Shyam previously served as a member of Hedera’s Board of Directors and Hedera’s Technology Committee.
Shyam has received a certificate in building AI products from MIT, executive diplomas from Harvard and Columbia, and a BA in computer engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University.
Arun S M
TAC Chair
Arun S M
TAC Chair
Arun areas of interests are cryptography & security, distributed systems and building scalable cloud solutions. He is a maintainer and an active contributor to the Hyperledger projects.
Johnna Powell
Governing Board Chair, Managing Director, Technology Research and Innovation - DTCC
Johnna Powell
Governing Board Chair, Managing Director, Technology Research and Innovation - DTCC
Dr. Johnna Powell is a Managing Director at DTCC, Global Head of Technology, Research and Innovation.
Previously, she was the Global Co-Head of ConsenSys NFT. She was at ConsenSys for 5 years, based in New York, and has served multiple Fortune 100 clients on product design, development and launch. Some of her work includes launching a carbon credit trading platform with a global alliance of 4 banks, and designing a securities issuance and lifecycle management platform with 10 of the largest global banks.
Under her leadership, the ConsenSys NFT team spearheaded a number of high-profile endeavors in NFT collections across industries including art, entertainment and music. This includes one of the highest-value, globally-recognized NFT projects (along with Palm and Heni): Damien Hirst - the Currency project, which achieved a $600m market cap and was 6x oversubscribed. Additionally, her team launched the second largest-ever Ethereum NFT collection, The Merge: Regenesis. Additionally, she and her team have partnered with 18+ global luxury brands (including LVMH, Prada, Cartier, and more) to launch the next wave of new utility NFTs, exploring loyalty, membership, personalization and creative user journeys. Also, in the world of global sports, Dr. Powell brought the Sports Illustrated Ticketing relationship to ConsenSys, which resulted in the development and launch of a global NFT ticketing platform, managed and delivered by her team. Additionally, she spearheaded the acquisition of Treum (a digital assets platform and creators of Eulerbeats) to ConsenSys, a groundbreaking platform in generative art & music, rights & royalties.
Johnna was previously a senior consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on corporate strategy and commercial (e.g., marketing & sales optimization, go-to-market strategy) engagements. As a leader in the Pricing practice, she worked with product development teams to develop and launch pricing tools across multiple organizations.
Johnna holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT, where she conducted research in millimeter-wave imaging systems and Ultra-Wideband ("5G") antennas for military applications. While at MIT, she won the IEEE International Best Paper Award for her research, along with a patent for her designs. In addition, BMW used her designs and prototypes in their Ultra-Wideband systems testing.
Osama Rabea
Computer Engineering Student - Menoufia University
Osama Rabea
Computer Engineering Student - Menoufia University
I’m
currently
computer
engineering
student
in
Egypt
have
participated
in
Linux
Foundation
mentorship
program
with
Fablo
I’m
particularly
interested
in
decentralized
systems
and
trust
technologies
Venkatraman Ramakrishna
Senior researcher - IBM Research Lab in Bangalore
Venkatraman Ramakrishna
Senior researcher - IBM Research Lab in Bangalore
Venkatraman Ramakrishna is a senior researcher in the IBM Research Lab in Bangalore, India. As an IBMer, he has also been on a temporary assignment as a research staff member at the IBM Center for Blockchain Innovation in Singapore.
Ramakrishna’s current research area is blockchain and smart contracting technology, with a focus on blockchain and distributed ledger interoperability.
Tomaz Sedej
Ecosystem Manager
Tomaz Sedej
Ecosystem Manager
Tomaz is also a Guest Researcher at Copenhagen Business School. His research focuses on the implications of enterprise blockchains for inter-organizational relationships. He is also working with the researchers from MIT Center for Information System Research, investigating the topics of Digital Ecosystems and Digital Partnering. Before starting to research enterprise blockchains, he worked at various multinational companies, such as L’Oréal and Coca-Cola, within the areas of digital transformation, process optimization, and financial controlling.
Yoav Tock
Senior research staff member, IBM Research
Yoav Tock
Senior research staff member, IBM Research
Yoav Tock is a Senior research staff member at IBM Research lab in Haifa, Israel. Yoav is currently working on scalable high performance Blockchain infrastructure.
His areas of interest are: Distributed computing; Blockchain; Cloud computing; Internet of Things (IoT); Peer-to-peer systems and Messaging. Mr. Tock holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (2003).
Ben Thomas
MarCom Lead
Ben Thomas
MarCom Lead
Ben leads the strategic development and execution of the organization's branding, marketing, and communications. He helps members maximize their marketing benefits and drives the adoption of decentralized technologies across the project and the broader Linux Foundation.
Matt Whitehead
Principal Engineer - Kaleido
Matt Whitehead
Principal Engineer - Kaleido
I'm a principal software engineer at Kaleido, Inc. working on blockchain technologies.
Min Yu
Program Manager
Min Yu
Program Manager
Min provides program management to scale the growth of an open source project community and to support the activities of the project governance and various committees at The Linux Foundation.
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