Hyperledger Project welcomes new members
The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, on Tuesday announced that the Hyperledger Project has filled a set of key leadership positions and is welcoming new members.
The Hyperledger Project is a collective effort to create and sustain an open, distributed ledger platform that will satisfy a variety of use cases across multiple industries.
The results of the Board of Directors and Technical Steering Committee elections for the Hyperledger Project are the following:
- Technical Steering Committee Chair: Chris Ferris, distinguished engineer and CTO of open technology at IBM;
- Technical Steering Committee members include: Tamás Blummer, Digital Asset Holdings; Mic Bowman, Intel; Richard Brown, R3; Stanislav Liberman, CME Group; Hart Montgomery, Fujitsu; Satoshi Oshima, Hitachi; Stefan Teis, Deutsche Börse; Emmanuel Viale, Accenture; Pardha Vishnumolakala, DTCC; and David Voell, J.P. Morgan.
- Board Chair: Blythe Masters, CEO of Digital Asset Holdings;
- Governing Board members: Charles Cascarilla, CEO, itBit; Toshiya Cho, Hitachi; Jerry Cuomo, IBM; Chris Ferris, IBM; Dirk Hohndel, Intel; Todd McDonald, cofounder and COO, R3; Robert Palatnick, DTCC; Kireeti Reddy, CME Group; Stefan Teis, Deutsche Börse; Dave Treat, Accenture; Yoshinobu Sawano, Fujitsu; Santiago Suarez, J.P. Morgan; and Craig Young, CTO, SWIFT.