Friends

We are grateful to the many professionals in blockchain from outside of Lehigh who have been guest speakers in our courses/seminars and advised students on projects.

  • Charles Allen ’99, CEO and Chair, BTCS
  • Amer Ameen, Blockchain and Web 3.0 R&D, Vice President of Product and Project Management, ChainSafe
  • Dele Atanda, CEO, metaMe, Chief Imagineer, Metaiye Media, Chair, The Internet.Foundation (The IF)
  • Bryan Barker, Global Manager, Research Advocacy, Oracle for Research, Oracle
  • Scott Bauguess, VP, Global Regulatory Policy, Coinbase
  • Andrew Bull, Founding Partner, Bull Blockchain Law
  • Nikhilesh De, Managing Editor for Global Policy and Regulation, CoinDesk
  • Rich de Moll, former Blockchain Finance Offering Leader, Deloitte; former VP Blockchain Solutions for Finance, IBM; Senior Fellow at Lehigh’s Enterprise System Center
  • Wendy Fong, Lehigh University Western Regional Office
  • Ryan Fox, Developer Advocate, Algorand
  • Allan Frank ’76 ’78 ’79, President, Think New Visions, LLC
  • Russ Fustino, Technical Evangelist, Algorand
  • Eric Grill, CEO, ChainBytes
  • Belma Gutlic, Vice President of Engineering, ChainSafe R&D, and Co-Founder & Board Member, Alice in Blockchains
  • H. Robert “Gus” Gustafson, Jr., Managing Director, Lehigh Enterprise Systems Center
  • Aidan Hyman, CEO, ChainSafe
  • John Hoyos, COO, MacguyverTech, and COO MacNerd Enterprises
  • Liz Kukka, Vice President of Operations, ChainSafe
  • Victor Luchangco, Senior Algorithms Researcher, Algorand
  • Omid Malekan, Author; Adjunct Professor Columbia Business School
  • Steven McKeon, CEO, MacguyverTech; and CEO, Diversity in Blockchain and Owner, CEO and Head Nerd in Charge, MacNerd Enterprises
  • C.Mohan, IBM Fellow, IBM Almaden Research Center (retired);  now visiting researcher, Google; and Distinguished Visiting
  • Mark Rakhmilevich ’83, Vice President, Product Management, High Availability and Blockchain Technologies, Oracle
  • Antonio Senatore, CTO of VeChain Foundation;   and former Director – Deloitte EMEA Blockchain Lab Lead and Global Blockchain CTO
  • Sapan Shah ’11 ’17, Executive Director, LV soLVe; owner of first Subway restaurant to accept Bitcoin
  • Jim Stamos, Architect, Oracle
  • Natayla Thakur, Co-Founder and COO, Knox Networks
  • Tsz Yan (Cathie) So, Lecturer, Univ. of Hong Kong
  • Jim Stamos, Architect, Oracle
  • Zane Starr, Founder, Create Dream Tech
  • Bala Vellanki, Director, Product Management and Strategy, Oracle Blockchain Platform
  • Matthew Vine ’17, Vice President, Citi Innovation Lab
  • Jason Weathersby, Senior Director, Developer Relations, Algorand
  • Scott Wenger, ChainBytes
  • Kevin Worth ’91, CEO, CoinDesk