Gavin Wood

Gavin Wood is the former Chief Technology Officer and co-­founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, the author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation.

Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of­-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages and co­-founded several technology start­ups.

Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences worldwide, from keynotes at regional technology conferences to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, connecting public and private blockchains to inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations wishing to work in private blockchains to connect with public ones.

Gavin is the founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state­-of­-the-­art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-­founded several technology start­ups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum.

He is the co-­designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification; he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.

• Parity Technologies Founder / Lead Developer
• Web3 Foundation President and Founder
• Grid Singularity Co-Founder