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# HEADS UP!
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# Possible keys:
# - name
# - position
# - bio
# - social (optional)
# - prefix (optional): used to prefix the name, like Dr.
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# The photo is grabbed automatically based on the webified version of the name.
# Each photo needs to be put as a square JPG in _src/_assets/img/board/ with the file name reflecting the name, e.g. David Holtzman would be david-holtzman.jpg
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- name: Joachim Lohkamp
position: President
bio: |
Joachim Lohkamp is an entrepreneur and tech-enthusiast with a heart for activism. As the founder of Jolocom, he has been working at the forefront of the decentralization movement in Berlin since 2014. With Jolocom, he is providing the identity solution that will enable real world use cases in smart contract based business models.
To ultimately harvest this potential and inform innovation aimed regulation, he co-founded the German Blockchain Association (Bundesblock) that establishes the dialogue between blockchain businesses and politics. He is further active as an advisor for BlockchainHub, a decentralized Think Tank and as a Connector for OuiShare. Finally, you might find him as the Organizer of events like GetDecentralized, Decentralized Web Summit among others.
social:
- name: Twitter
link: https://twitter.com/JockelLohkamp
- name: LinkedIn
link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joachimlohkamp/
- name: Thomas Fürstner
position: General Secretary
bio: |
Tom Fürstner is a research scientist and university professor with over 30 years of experience in formal logic, social economy theory and digital art. Tom is the founder and CTO of Riddle & Code, a company focused on developing dedicated hardware for the physical internet and public ledger systems.
These days, he is working on hardened server systems for operating BigchainDB and IPFS. The aim is to enable sustainable and resilient identity services in an emerging world of shared sovereignty between humans, machines, algorithms and protocols.
social:
- name: LinkedIn
link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-fuerstner-0797592/
- name: Elfriede Sixt
position: Treasurer
bio: |
Elfriede Sixt believes in the disruptive potential of decentralized peer-to-peer networks and blockchains. She is curious to learn how industries and business models will change along this way.
Elfriede Sixt is a blogger and book author writing about crowdfunding, blockchains, and regulation. Her background is in Business administration and corporate finance. Besides that she is a founder of fintech.academy as well as ebit4u.
social:
- name: Twitter
link: https://twitter.com/ebit4u
- name: LinkedIn
link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elfriede-sixt-05384719/
- name: David Holtzman
position: Member-at-Large
bio: |
David Holtzman is an information technology security expert, educator and activist. He started his career as a cryptographic analyst, military codebreaker, U.S. Naval Security Group submariner, and Soviet Manned Space Program analyst. Holtzman is an early-stage internet pioneer.
He was the CTO at Network Solutions when it managed the domain name system, where he oversaw the explosive growth of the commercial internet to more than 20 million domain names by the late 1990s. He is the author of Privacy Lost: How Technology is Endangering Your Privacy, and a regular commentator for major news media, including Bloomberg Television, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, Business Week, and The Washington Post.
social:
- name: Twitter
link: https://twitter.com/theglobalpov
- name: Nina-Luisa Siedler
prefix: Dr.
position: Member-at-Large
bio: |
Dr. Nina-Luisa Siedler is a lawyer and partner at [DWF Berlin](https://www.dwf.law/people/n/nina-siedler/) with over 15 years of experience. She is interested in FinTech and decentralized technology, and her practice includes blockchain matters. She is an advisor to Blockchain Hub Berlin.
Dr. Siedler is specialized in structured finance, including credit and capital market instruments, especially acquisition and project financing, real estate transactions, asset-backed securities, structured cover bonds, debt loans, and corporate bonds.
social:
- name: Twitter
link: https://twitter.com/ninsie3