Who should be named to the ETH Foundation's Board?
I have no horse in this race, but I think nominations should be discussed, defended, and maybe there are others who may be a stronger fit.
Discuss!
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Executive Director: Alex Urbelis
Alexander Urbelis is General Counsel and Chief Information Security Officer of the Ethereum Name Service. Previously, he was Chief Information Security Officer of the National Football League and Chief Compliance Officer of Richemont. Alex is the architect of a DNS-based threat intelligence platform that detected a state-sponsored intrusion targeting the World Health Organization at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, work for which he was named a Financial Times Innovative Lawyers finalist in 2020. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where he teaches cybersecurity law. Alex holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from New College, University of Oxford; a JD, magna cum laude, from Vermont Law School; and a BA in Philosophy from Stony Brook University, where he graduated summa cum laude.
Independent Director: Kartik Talwar
Kartik Talwar is a General Partner at A.Capital Ventures and a Co-Founder of ETHGlobal. Previously, he was a Software Developer and served as an Investor at SV Angel, where he played a key role in leading crypto and technical investments. He has been instrumental in originating and promoting early stage investments in over 100 successful companies including Coinbase, Aztec, Etherscan, Farcaster, Anchorage, Uniswap, OpenSea, and Optimism. Kartik holds a degree in Astrophysics and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
Independent Director: Anthony Leutenegger
Anthony Leutenegger is the CEO of Aragon. Anthony built the new generation of Aragon from the ground-up, giving Aragon new life. Aragon is one of the largest integrators of ENS utilising DAO.eth and Aragon.eth for business and personal accounts on Aragon. Anthony previously co-founded Generic Protocol and worked at Vocdoni, a voting protocol. Anthony is one of the largest delegates at Lido and Morpho. In another life Anthony was a National Geographic photographer and graduated from the University of Waterloo, he’s based in Switzerland but hails from Canada.
UoW ftw!
Independent Director: Brett Sun
Brett is a cofounder of Prelude, an early stage venture fund supporting entrepreneurs in crypto from the earliest stages. He has over a decade of professional experience in the industry and comes from an engineering background. In 2015 he joined Ascribe to build one of the earliest NFT platforms on Bitcoin and from 2017-2020 led Aragon’s technical efforts, where he deployed AragonID as one of ENS’ earliest protocol integrations, servicing over 1k subdomains.
Director: Nick Johnson
Nick Johnson is the founder and CEO of ENS Labs, the team behind the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), the decentralised protocol for human-readable names on Ethereum. He previously worked at the Ethereum Foundation and spent several years as a software and site reliability engineer at Google.