Our Mission

From 2015 until now, Meltem has provided strong guidance on our fundraising and go-to-market strategies. As we moved from ascribe.io to BigchainDB and now to Ocean Protocol, her wisdom has been invaluable.

Carsten shares deep insights on IoT, energy and identity solutions that can integrate into Ocean Protocol, as well as giving us his futuristic viewpoints to help us see around the corner.

Sebastian gave us great insights in their Token Curation development such as the graded TCR. More importantly, many of their developments, research and insights are being widely shared in the open source community.

Adam is both a world-class data scientist and manager of data scientists & engineers.

We are excited about Chris’ insight and guidance on how we can further the goals of MOBI by using Ocean Protocol as a secure, data exchange protocol for solving mobility challenges.

Lawrence is exploring the intersections of artificial intelligence, blockchains and the internet of things. With a political background he leads Outlier Venture's thinking on governance in crypto networks.

We’re working closely with Peter to provide seamless and powerful tooling for data scientists to co-create a future that equalizes the opportunity to access data & AI services.

Andreas Mueller is one of the core creators of the beloved machine learning tool scikit-learn.

Luis Cuende is the founder of Aragon, a network and tooling for blockchain governance, and one of the top experts in the blockchain space

Simon’s quick, curious, and broad-thinking mind will be helpful as we build & grow the Ocean ecosystem, in everything from incentives for data commons to price-setting for data markets.

Azeem Azhar is a seasoned technologist & manager, and doesn’t shy away from making his case about what’s important and what we might do about it.

Amir is General Manager of the AI & Frontier Tech Initiatives group at XPRIZE Foundation. He is a leader in the global AI for Good movement, as epitomized by the global “AI for Good Global Summit” that he co-organizes.

Ben is the CEO of the decentralized AI network SingularityNET, a blockchain-based AI platform company, and the Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics. He also has decades of expertise applying AI to practical problems in areas ranging from natural language processing and data mining to robotics, video gaming, national security and bioinformatics.

Dr. Anastassia Lauterbach is a technology strategist possessing unique knowledge of the high-tech ecosystem, able to structure partnership agreements with global technology companies offering mutual advantage.

Brian Fabian Crain is an economist, entrepreneur and host of Epicenter, passionate about open systems and freedom.

Ryan Selkis is an entrepreneur, blogger, and former venture capitalist.

For decades, Richard Muirhead has been involved in starting, funding, building and finding long-term homes for innovative software and internet businesses.

Mark has over 20 years of experience in institutional investing, focusing on blockchain and smart-city tech.

Kenneth focuses on Corporate and Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technology law practice. As an interdisciplinary lawyer, he has experience in token offerings, equity investments and exchanges.

Jason Teutsch is a mathematician and computer scientist whose research focuses on distributed systems security, game theory and algorithmic randomness.

Gil Allouche is a product marketing expert with focus on big data and technology.

David Holtzmann is a former security analyst and military code-breaker, a futurist, activist, privacy expert, technologist, technology executive and writer. Initiatives he spearheaded have radically changed the way people interact with technology.

As part of the most technologically sophisticated and global sports organizations, Charles Smith is seeking to securely share and monetize data from the ATP