Women in Blockchain (WiB)

On the Panel:

• Melissa Ran – Operations Lead @ Tenzorum
• Tracy Kuhrt – Community Architect @ Hyperledger
• Daniela Barbosa – Linux Foundation, Hyperledger, VP World Wide Alliances

Melissa Ran leads Operations at Tenzorum, a startup developing user friendly on-boarding tools to help blockchain technology reach mainstream adoption. She’s also the Head of Partnerships at bitfwd, a blockchain education community group. Previously Melissa was a Startup Program Manager at UNSW in charge of the university’s Australia-China entrepreneurship collaboration initiatives.

Tracy Kuhrt is community architect of Hyperledger at the Linux Foundation. Tracy has had a varied career working in the automotive manufacturing, pharmaceutical, microelectronics, and ecommerce industries. Previously, Tracy was a principal member of the technical staff on the strategic architecture team at PayPal and developed compilers, assemblers, and linkers for 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers at Microchip Technologies, using open source software

Daniela Barbosa serves as Vice President of World Wide Alliances at Hyperledger, where she is responsible for the full lifecycle management of Hyperledger’s membership community while overseeing the broader industry and business community outreach and network growth. Daniela has developed and led growth and innovation strategies for more than 18 years with a background working with financial services, media, and enterprise software. Daniela has led both partnerships and alliances teams as well as marketing and has been responsible for driving global partnerships, OEM integrations, market leadership, and global brand awareness. Daniela has a Master’s degree in library and information science from Rutgers University. A self-diagnosed information and data junkie, she is fascinated by trends in data and content delivery and consumption.