After an intensive recruitment period, the Ethereum Foundation elected an Executive Director and appointed three members to the Board of Directors. This is a new organizational structure that allows us to focus on the next phase of development.
The Ethereum Foundation is a Swiss-registered non-profit (‘Stiftung’) organization whose purpose is to manage funds raised from Ether sales in order to best serve the Ethereum and decentralized technology ecosystem. The new director is Ming Chan, and the board of directors currently consists of four members. They are Lars Klawitter, Vadim Levitin, Wayne Hennessy-Barrett and Vitalik Buterin (Chairman of the Board).
Executive Director
Ming Chan
Ming, who majored in computer science and media arts and sciences at MIT, is a Swiss-born Chinese-American who has led and completed complex IT and management consulting projects for decades, founded and grown business ventures, and is a leading educator, scientist, and inventor. They bring inspiring research innovations to life. She has been following Ethereum since 2013 and has a keen understanding of the legal and regulatory issues associated with blockchain technology.
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board members
Las Klewiter
Lars holds a degree in Computer Science and was involved in startups as a founder or senior executive during the first Internet revolution in the late 90s. Having since moved to senior roles in the automotive industry, Lars has significant experience building and growing organizations at the intersection of technology and innovation. He has held several C-level IT positions, most recently as CIO at Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, where he is currently responsible for the Specialty Vehicles and Innovations business.
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Wayne Hennessy-Barrett
He is the founder and CEO of 4G Capital, an African mobile money fintech company based in Kenya. With his extensive experience in corporate governance and risk management, he has created and led scalable distribution systems in emerging markets around the world. Following his distinguished military career, he provided intelligence-led consulting and strategic advice to several boards in the commercial and public sectors. He is a passionate advocate for the transformative power of financial technology for poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
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doctor. Vadim David Levitin
Vadim worked on technical issues for 23 countries on behalf of the United Nations. Trained as a physician, he found the connections between humans and technological systems fascinating and explanatory, which led him to pursue his master’s degree in technology. He ran a business development company in Eastern Europe, serving Fortune 500 clients interested in that market as the region emerged from communism. He later served as CEO of Ecommerce Institute, a global technology company with subsidiaries in the UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean. He has consulted with leading companies, governments and NGOs on almost every continent and has written national strategies on economic and technological issues ranging from digital markets to online stock exchanges, e-schools to technology strategies for emerging countries, and from transport to tourism. From healthcare to developing national infrastructure broadband.
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Vitalik Buterin
Vitalik is one of the inventors of Ethereum. Vitalik first discovered Bitcoin in 2011, and it immediately fascinated him with its combination of mathematics, economics, and an immediate feeling that it represented the way money “should” be. In September 2011, he became the co-founder and chief writer of Bitcoin Magazine. Accordingly, Vitalik founded Ethereum, a blockchain-based random state Turing-complete scripting platform useful for smart contracts, computational resource markets, financial experiments, decentralized governance, and many other use cases we haven’t even thought of yet.
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If you would like to schedule an interview with the new Foundation Board of Directors, please contact us. press@ethereum.org