Meet the Team

Ralf is a serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Alcatel-Lucent and is the co-founder of grandcentrix, Germany's leading SI for end-to-end Internet of Things productions.

Supervisory Board

Our Supervisory Board guides and oversees the performance of the Governing Board, providing expert insights and proper external oversight.

Johann Jungwirth

Chief Digital Officer at Volkswagen

Johann Jungwirth drives digital transformation with the 12 outstanding brands of the Volkswagen Group such as Porsche, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Seat, and Skoda.

Richard Soley

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OMG

Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and CEO of OMG, Executive Director of the Cloud Standards Customer Council, and Executive Director of the Industrial Internet Consortium.

Rolf Werner

Head of Central Europe at Fujitsu

Dr. Rolf Werner has over 20 years of experience in developing business in the various segments of Telecommunication and IT industry.

Head of Departments

The leaders of the various departments within the IOTA Foundation.

Lewis Freiberg

Head of Ecosystem

Lewis Freiberg is a software developer who builds consumer facing solutions for web and mobile. He’s passionate about the new opportunities within the emerging IoT industries.

Alon Gal

Head of Research

Physicist, programmer, and entrepreneur. Likes complicated equations and simple code.

Edward Greve

Head of Engineering

Edward is an avid software developer, technology enthusiast, teacher and polyglot. He connects mathematics, computer science, and business needs together.

John Licciardello

Managing Director, Ecosystem Development Fund

John spent many years working in FinTech and holds degrees in Engineering, Economics, and Finance. The convergence of these fields in DLTs makes for an ideal home.

Julie Maupin

Head of Social Impact & Public Regulatory Affairs

Julie is a world-leading expert on the regulatory implications and public sector use cases of DLTs, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, artificial intelligence and IoT technologies.

Wilfried Pimenta de Miranda

Head of Business Development

Will is a senior strategist, business model innovator & business development manager. He brings international experience from startups and incumbents across various industries.

Our Team

The engineers, researchers, industry experts, and other professionals working every day on the development and adoption of the IOTA protocol for the machine economy and the IoT industry.

Darcy Camargo

Research Mathematician

Darcy is a Ph.D. in stochastic processes. His field of research includes a lot of random walk and graph related processes.

Jakub Cech

Product Owner

Jakub is a product manager and software engineer with passion for learning algorithms. Usually the one to ask 'why'.

Dyrell Chapman

Software Engineer

Dyrell is a self taught programmer and co-founder of Geometric Energy Corporation with a passion for cutting edge technology and humanities social development.

Paul Douglas

Senior Software Engineer

Electrical engineer, Core Developer, karate, 3D printing, and optics enthusiast.

Chris Dukakis

Software Engineer

Chris is a programmer interested in permissionless and emerging tech. Mostly writes in JavaScript and likes concise code.

Alon Elmaliah

Staff Research Engineer

Alon is a programmer and electrical engineer with great passion for security and cryptography and an active member of the Cryptocurrency scene in Tel Aviv.

Paulo Finardi

Research Scientist

Paulo is a C.S. PhD student at the Univ. of Campinas focusing on cryptographic digital signatures. He holds a M.Sc. Applied Mathematics on numerical analysis.

Sabri Goldberg

Creative Director

Sabri is a well-known passionated graphic designer / illustrator in the altcoin scene, who has been interested in cryptocurrency since the early days.

Andrew Greve

Online Community Liason

Andrew is a Political Science PhD candidate with a passion for technology and policy.

Eric Hop

Senior Product Owner

There are no problems, only solutions.

Sergey Ivancheglo, aka Come-from-Beyond

Honorary Member & Founder

Electrical Engineer, Software developer, founder and creator of Nxt, co-founder of Jinn Labs.

Bartosz Kuśmierz

Research Scientist

Bartosz is currently pursuing a PhD in physics on the topic of symmetric polynomials theory in the fractional quantum Hall effect at Wrocław Univ. of Science and Technology.

Alisa Maas

Mobility & Automotive Stream Lead

Since early 2010, Alisa has been active in the fields of mobility, IoT and fleet management, gaining extensive topic expertise on digital business models and product development.

Giorgio E. Mandolfo

SysOps Engineer

Systems Engineer, Linux enthusiast for way too long; I feel at ease with a bash terminal. Actually, give me ten of those.

Emmanuel Merali

Staff Software Engineer

Passionate technophile and long time believer in the IoT vision.

Jens Munch Lund-Nielsen

Global Trade & Supply Chains Stream Lead

Jens worked 9 years at Maersk in various roles in sustainability, strategy and building new business ventures. Jens brings a vast network with international trade organisations.

Andreas Osowski

Senior Software Engineer

Software engineer, Core Developer. Penchant for software architecture, distributed and embedded systems and functional languages. IoT DIY Gadgets are what brought me here.

Jan Pauseback

Technical Analyst

Studied Business & Information Technology and Software Engineering. Worked mostly in startups and innovation departments in the mobility/automotive sector: mytaxi, Volvo, Daimler.

Serguei Popov

Research Mathematician & Founder

Professor of Mathematics with focus in Probability Theory. Also a mountain climber, chess enthusiast and heavy metal lover.

Navin Ramachandran

e-Health Stream Lead

Practicing doctor, researcher, eHealth specialist. Honorary senior lecturer UCL CHIME, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies. Advisor to UK All Party Parliamentary Group on DLT.

Samuel Reid

Q Architect

Sam is a mathematician, inventor, and business executive who is CEO of Geometric Energy Corporation and has had extensive academic involvement with the Univ. of Calgary.

Gal Rogozinski

Software Engineer

Programmer, cyclist, swimmer, and kung fu enthusiastic.

Olivia Saa

Research Mathematician

Olivia is a PhD student at Univ. of São Paulo studying Dynamical Systems and Game Theory. She holds a M.Sc.Eng. and degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics.

Tsvi Sabo

Software Engineer

I like when technology serves progress, with interests in cryptography, math, frisbee and hummus.

Clara Shikhelman

Research Mathematician

Clara is a Mathematics PhD candidate at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on Graph Theory and Combinatorics. She also loves giving public talks about math and literature.

Alexey Sobolev

Frontend Developer

Front-end developer, work on web and mobile applications by integrating various modern technologies and frameworks such as React, Node, and WebAssembly.

Charlie Varley

Software Engineer

Programmer with a background in Psychology and Philosophy. UX enthusiast, LFC supporter and techno head. Charlie is lead developer of the Trinity wallet.

Andrea Villa

Senior Research Engineer, Security Specialist

Andrea is a self-taught and passionate tinkerer and computer hacker, give him a challenge and you will keep him awake all night.

Advisors

The outside experts in industry and academia supporting the IOTA project.

Harm van den Brink

Energy & E-mobility Advisor

Harm is an entrepreneur and always looking for practical and useful implementations of new and disruptive ideas. His focus is on EV infrastructure and the energy domain.

Oliver T. Bussmann

Financial Services Industry Advisor

Oliver is a Senior Technology Executive with 28+ years of leadership in different industries (High Tech and Financial Service) with UBS, SAP, Allianz, Deutsche Bank, and IBM.

Regine H. Helmer

Digital Transformation & Business Development Advisor

Regine is Founder and CEO of Seedlab, a digital transformation and business development consulting firm. She is also a lecturer at HWZ Univ in Zurich, a keynote speaker and author.

Gur Huberman

Finance & Economics Advisor

Gur Huberman is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance at Columbia Business School where he has taught since 1989. Gur is interested in incentives in crypto coins.

Hongquan Jiang

Technology Industry Advisor

Hongquan is a partner at Robert Bosch Venture Capital and is a “deep tech” investor with multiple successful investments in IoT, AI, augmented reality and automotive technologies.

Koen Maris

Cyber Security Advisor

Koen is a passionate information/cyber security specialist who serves as a trusted advisor for many organizations and is known for questioning current applied security models.

Madjid Nakhjiri

Public Key Infrastructure Advisor

Madjid is an expert in public key infrastructure and has spent years in the area of device and user authentication and related key management schemes.

Michael Nilles

Smart Cities & Infrastructure Advisor

Michael Nilles is executive member of the Board of Directors and Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for Schindler. Michael also serves on the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG.

Alexander Renz

Smart Mobility & Transportation Advisor

New Mobility Enthusiast, Startup Aficionado and Managing Partner at New Mobility Consulting.

Jochen Renz

Smart Mobility & Transportation Advisor

Electronics Engineer who after a 20-year corporate IT career Co-Founded New Mobility Consulting & New Mobility World with my brother Alex. Simply put, cars and IT are in our blood.

Joachim Taiber

Smart Mobility Advisor

Chief Technology Officer of the International Transportation Innovation Center and Adjunct professor at the Clemson Univ. International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR).