Meet the Team
Meet the Team
The IOTA team is growing rapidly, with an ecosystem of contributors and advisors from across the globe.
Board of Directors
Our Governing Board functions to steer the strategic vision of the IOTA Foundation, its research interests and its development focus.
David Sønstebø
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors & Founder
David is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for any kind of technology that can push human progress forward.
Dominik Schiener
Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors & Founder
Dominik is an entrepreneur from Italy, with a passion to drive change in society and business.
Ralf Rottmann
Member Board of Directors
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.
Sergey Ivancheglo, aka Come-from-Beyond
Member Board of Directors & Founder
Electrical Engineer, Software developer, founder and creator of Nxt, co-founder of Jinn Labs.
Serguei Popov
Member Board of Directors & Founder
Professor of Mathematics with focus in Probability Theory. Also a mountain climber, chess enthusiast and heavy metal lover.
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.
Executive Team
The executive leadership team within the IOTA Foundation.
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.
Lewis Freiberg
Director of Ecosystem
Lewis has worked in the commercial software industry for the last 8 years. He has been in the DLT space since 2013 and believes in the transformative nature of the technology
Alon Gal
Director of Research
Physicist, programmer, and entrepreneur. Likes complicated equations and simple code.
Edward Greve
Director of Engineering
Edward is an avid software developer, technology enthusiast, teacher and polyglot. He connects mathematics, computer science, and business needs together.
Holger Köther
Director of Partnerships
Holger has driven projects & IT services at multinational corporates over the last 15 years. At the IF he manages the interfaces between the foundation, partners and integrators.
Jens Munch Lund-Nielsen
Head of Global Trade & Supply Chains
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.
Alisa Maas
Head of Mobility & Automotive
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.
Julie Maupin
Director 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
Director 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.
Aaron Alsop
Product Owner
Aaron values creativity and innovation to answer tomorrow's opportunities. Product Owner with IOTA | Startup Co-Founder | MBA from Royal Roads | Father of Twins | Hot Rod Builder.
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.
陳志誠 (Sam Chen)
Senior Software Engineer
Embedded system developer, doer, and father.
Dave de Fijter
Online Community Liaison
Dave is a experienced developer and technology enthusiast. When he's not developing or with his family you will most likely find him in the IOTA Discord server.
Vassil Dimitrov
Senior Research Scientist
Vassil Dimitrov is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Eng, Univ. of Calgary. Research interests include encryption algorithms, discrete mathematics and related topics.
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.
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.
Casper Eicke Frederiksen
Media Producer
Communicating the vision and real life implementations of this revolutionary technology to the IOTA Community and beyond.
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.
Rihards Gravis
Software Engineer
Application developer with a passion for detail.
Andrew Greve
Social Science Researcher
Andrew is a Political Science PhD candidate with a passion for technology and policy.
Janine Härtel
Senior Product Manager
Janine has worked in several strategic automotive projects with a strong focus on new business models in MaaS applications and OTA services.
Eric Hop
Senior Product Owner
There are no problems, only solutions.
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.
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.
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.
Michele Nati
Lead Tech Analyst
Michele, PhD, is a technologist with many years of research and innovation experience in the field of IoT and Trust. He's passionate about DLTs and data-driven innovation.
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.
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.
Umair Sarfraz
Software Engineer
Programmer with a deep interest in software design and architecture, cloud security and distributed systems. Basketball fanatic.
Mark Schmidt
Community Manager
Mark is a distributed ledger technology enthusiast and entrepreneur located in Germany. As a community manager he will facilitate the ecosystem growth around the globe.
Fahad Sheikh
Online Community Liason
Fahad has experience in IT service management and enjoys to read and marvel at natural biological systems.
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.
Mathew Yarger
Senior Research Engineer & Security Specialist
Mat is a US Army Combat Veteran, DoD Cyber Security Expert with 10 years of experience, System Architect at Geometric Energy Corporation and a dedicated father.
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.
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.
Anes Hodžić
Digital Transformation and Internet of Things Advisor
Anes is VP Digital Transformation and IoT at Digital Transformation Office of Airbus Group. He holds a doctoral degree in Electrical Eng./Telecom from the Technical Univ. Berlin.
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.
Klaus Schaaf
Smart Mobility Advisor
Klaus holds a diploma degree and a PhD in Physics from Göttingen University and has been with Volkswagen AG for 30 years, mostly in research areas and promoting edge technologies.
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).