Distributed Ledger Technology & Our Vision

Swirlds Labs was established with the mission to accelerate the future, built on Hedera – the most used, greenest, enterprise-grade public ledger for the decentralized economy. Our vision is to enable ‘Shared Worlds’, where anyone can gather, collaborate, conduct commerce, and control their own online footprint. We will enable this vision by continuing to provide development and other support for the Hedera network, building community and enterprise solutions that enable fast, rapidly scalable adoption of Hedera network services, and cultivating ‘moonshot’ projects that will change the way humans and organizations interact in cyberspace.

The Founders

Dr. Leemon Baird

Co-founder & Co-CEO

Dr. Leemon Baird is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, Co-founder of Hedera, and Co-founder and Co-CEO of Swirlds Labs. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the US Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the Co-founder of several startups, including two identity-related startups, both of which were acquired. Leemon received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.

Mance Harmon

Co-founder & Co-CEO

Mance Harmon is the Co-founder of Hedera, and Co-founder and Co-CEO of Swirlds Labs. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder and CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue organization, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at the US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.

The Team

Corporate
Dr. Leemon Baird
Co-CEO & Co-founder
Mance Harmon
Co-CEO & Co-founder
Lance Laughridge
Cate Papez
Chief of Staff
Eric Piscini
Blanca Quiroz
Engineering
Artem Ananev
Staff Engineer
Eric Badiere
Eric Badiere
John Bair
Engineering
Richard Bair
Vice President of Engineering
David Bakin
Engineering
Jeromy Cannon
Hendrik Ebbers
Nana Essilfie-Conduah
Senior Software Developer
Mugdha Goel
Sr. Software Engineer
Kelly Greco
Senior Software Developer
Edwin Greene
Senior Software Engineer
Alfredo Gutierrez Grajeda
Michael Heinrichs
Principal Engineer
Matt Hess
Michael Horowitz
Simi Hunjan
Nathan Klick
Principal Engineer
Krystal Lee
Luke Lee
Cody Littley
Senior Software Developer
Ivan Malygin
Luis Mastrangelo
Oleg Mazurov
Senior Performance Engineer
Lenin Mehedy
Engineering
Thomas Moran
Jesse Nelson
Logan Nguyen
Anthony Petrov
Lazar Petrovic
Senior Software Developer
Jasper Potts
Architect
Kim Rader
Matt Riben
Jeffrey Schmidt
Steven Sheehy
Principal Engineer
Joseph Sinclair
Neeharika Sompalli
Software Developer
Qinghui Tang
Senior Software Developer
Michael Tinker
Principal Engineer
Robert Walworth
Edward Wertz
Tom Zheng
System Test & Performance Engineer
Cryptography
Rohit Sinha
Development Operations
Dan Alvizu
Principal DevOps Engineer
Nir Ben-Or
Cameron Eagans
Tanner Ferguson
Principal DevOps Engineer
Keifer Furzland
Matthew Halder
Senior DevOps Engineer
Elijah Lynn
Matthew Peterson
DevOps
Product Development
Justin Atwell
Developer Advocate
Michael Bennett
Giuseppe Bertone
Mark Blackman
Lionel Chocron
Chief Product Officer
Michael Garber
Developer Advocate
Ian Holsman
Developer Advocate
Keith Kowal
Decentralized Identity Director
Atul Mahamuni
SVP of Product
Tim McHale
Developer Advocate
Raphael Messian
Serg Metelin
Developer Advocate
Michiel Mulders
Ali Nikan
Program Director
Ashe Oro
Developer Advocate
Greg Scullard
Developer Advocate
Tyler Smith
Pathorn Tengkiattrakul
Developer Advocate
Marketing
Ryan Arndt
David Berlind
Mica Cerone
Community Development Representative
Zenobia Godschalk
SVP of Communications
Brendan Graetz
Christian Hasker
Chief Marketing Officer
Allene Jue
Eileen Lee
Alyson Liu
Event Coordinator
Andrew Llavore
Demand Gen & Marketing Ops Director
Ed Marquez
Developer Evangelist
Travis McCracken
Daniel McHale
Intern
Devin Saxon
Senior Product Marketing Manger
Oliver Thorn
Social Media Manager
Lina Tran
Events & Field Marketing Director
Abi Woo-Sam
Developer Evangelist
Business Development
Kurt Bierbower
Jake Freedman
Legal
Natalie Furman
General Counsel
Shoshana O'Brien
Finance
V. Matthew Carr, CPA
Finance Director
Colby Hopkins
Scott Turner
Controller
Human Resources
Luciano Belizan
SVP of Human Resources
Anni Meksa
Talent Manager
Francesca Nong
Joni Rodriguez
Human Resources Director
Information Systems & Security
Ryan Jolly
IT Analyst
Nate Miller
Isaac Parle
Michael Perri
Deepak Rathore