Meet the Team

Nov 2018 Update

See On the Recent Changes at RChain Cooperative, Nov 7, 2018.

Board of Directors

Directors are elected at the annual meeting of the cooperative:

Greg Meredith • @leithaus LinkedIn

Lucius Gregory (Greg) Meredith is the president of the RChain Cooperative. Greg is a mathematician, and the discoverer of the rho-calculus, a co-inventor of the LADL algorithm, and the inventor of the ToGL approach to graph theory.

Kenny Rowe • @kennyrowe

Holistic Technologist, lives part time in the future. Rchain Cooperative. MakerDAO. CoinFund. Onchain.

Vlad Zamfir • @VladZamfir LinkedIn

Vlad Zamfir is a researcher with the Ethereum Foundation. He is the lead developer of the Casper protocol upgrade best known for his work on cryptoeconomics, proof-of-stake, and blockchain sharding.

Ian Bloom • @doctor_bloom

Ian has been actively supporting the development of RChain since April 2015 and was a member of Synereo's core team, helping with systems admin, marketing, website development, and hosting. He is a Linux, Open Source, and Blockchain enthusiast with a finance degree from the University of Baltimore. He has worked as a Microsoft Systems Engineer (MCSE) for AEGON, and Computer Security Specialist for Fortress Technologies (now General Dynamics), & Kroll.

Evan Jensen • @ledarsi LinkedIn

Evan Jensen is a lawyer and a technologist, also with an LLM in Innovation and Technology from Seattle University School of Law, and has been with RChain since the formation of the Cooperative. He has always been an enthusiast of video games and hopes blockchain technology will enable the creation of the ultimate global online arcade, in the classical style where users pay perhaps 25 cents to play a game of their choice once, forever replacing the "freemium" garbage that has become ubiquitious with a direct, independent distribution and payment system that is clear, simple, and fair.

Barry Cynamon • LinkedIn

Barry is a business consultant, market researcher, and economist. He has a knack for interrogating data and wears multiple hats, juggling projects and finding structure in the face of ambiguity.

Kevin Goldstein • @kevinmgoldstein LinkedIn

Kevin is a competitive, compassionate, mindful, and seasoned business professional with uncommon leadership, management, and communication skills who is forever curious, seeking of new challenges and readily adapting to them. He is a managing partner at Kee Global Advisors and is on the board at numerous crypto-based agencies.

Board of Directors Q&A

Members of the Coop can meet with directors in weekly Q&A sessions. See the #member-calendar channel for details.

The Core Dev Team

There are over 40 contributors to the RChain core platform.

Our developer conferences are a good way to get to know them. Stay tuned to Mainnet plans and updates as well.