After an intensive recruitment period, the Ethereum Foundation selected an executive director and appointed three members to the board of directors. This is a new organizational structure, which will allow us to focus on our next development phase.
The Ethereum Foundation is a non -profit organization (“Stiftung”) recorded in Switzerland, and aims to manage the funds that have been collected from the sale of ether in order to best serve the etherum ecosystem and decentralized technology. Our new executive director is Ming Chan and our board of directors is currently made up of four members. These are: Lars Klawitter, Vadim Levitin, Wayne Hennessy-Barrett and Vitalik Buterin (Chairman of the Board of Directors).
Executive Director
Ming Chan
A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied IT, the arts and media sciences, Ming is a Chinese-American of Swiss origin who has spent decades to direct and carry out complex computer and management consulting projects, foundation and commercial growth, and to work with the best educators, scientists and inventors to provide inspiring innovation to research. She has followed Ethereum since 2013 and has a good understanding of the legal and regulatory problems relevant to blockchain technology.
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Members of the board of directors
Lars Klawitter
Lars holds a computer diploma and was involved in startups as a founder or senior executive during the first Internet revolution in the late 1990s. Having since moved to higher positions in the automotive industry, Lars has substantial experience in the construction and growth of organizations at the intersection of technology and innovation. He has held several CIO computer stations, the most recent IOC at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the company where he is currently responsible for the special vehicle and innovation company.
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Wayne Hennessy-Barrett
Founder and CEO of 4G Capital, an African Mobile Fintech company based in Kenya. It has created and directed evolving distribution systems on emerging markets around the world with extensive experience in corporate governance and risk management. After a distinguished military career, he provided strategic advice and intelligence advice to a certain number of advice in the commercial and public sectors. He is a committed defender of the transformative power of financial technology for the reduction of poverty and sustainable development.
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Dr. Vadim David Levitin
Vadim has worked on technological issues in twenty-three countries on behalf of the United Nations. Trained as a doctor, he found the link between human systems and intriguing and illustrative technological systems leading him to continue a master’s degree in technology. He headed a business development company in Eastern Europe at the service of Fortune Customers 500 interested in these markets while the region emerged from communism. Later, he was CEO of Ecommerce Institute, a global technological company with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. He consulted large companies, governments and NGOs on almost all continents, wrote national strategies on economic and technological issues ranging from digital markets to online scholarships, electronic schools to technological strategies for emerging countries, tourism transport and health care for national infrastructure for the development of the broad infrastructure strip.
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Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik is one of Ethereum’s inventors. Vitalik discovered Bitcoin for the first time in 2011, and the combination of mathematics, the economy and an immediate feeling that he represented the way money “should” attract him immediately on the scene. In September 2011, he became co -founder and original chief writer of Bitcoin magazine. Following this, Vitalik founded Ethereum, a script-complete platform in the arbitrary state based on useful blockchain for intelligent contracts, computer resources markets, financial experimentation, decentralized governance and many other use cases that we have not even thought of.
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If you wish to organize an interview with our new foundation council, please contact press@ethereum.org
