Algorand Foundation Board and Members 

Christopher Bowring F.C.C.A, A.C.I.S, A.I.B., T.E.P., is a fellow of the UK Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, an associate of the Chartered Governance Institute(formerly the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators), and a member of the Institute of Financial Services (formerly the Chartered Institute of Bankers). He has over thirty years’ experience in the management of various entities including mutual funds, trusts and corporations in a number of jurisdictions.

Kieron is a seasoned entrepreneur having built and exited three Fintech businesses with his most recent company 3V, an online and mobile payments company selling in 2015 for $20 million. He has a deep understanding of the Fintech and Blockchain space, in particular raising growth capital and developing scaling strategies. He has led and influenced many of the key developments in payment card processing systems design. Kieron is an accredited inventor of a number of major innovations in the industry in the past decade. In particular the technology that underpins Mastercards InControl technology that was purchased from Orbiscom in 2009 for $100 million and the development of VISA’s payments system for the London 2012 Olympics. Kieron has over 30 years international senior executive experience in manufacturing, telecoms and financial services working with companies such as VISA, Paypal, Telefonica, Lloyds, Tesco, Orange, and Alcatel Lucent. He holds a B.Comm(Hons) from University College Cork and a Masters in Business from University College Dublin.

Giuseppe (Pino) Persiano is a professor of Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali -- Management of Innovation Systems of the Università di Salerno. Pino has received his Laurea in Science dell'Informazione cumlaude, in 1986 from Salerno, his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1989, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1992. Between Salerno and Harvard, he has worked for Olivetti, in Ivrea, Italy. Pino has been an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Dipartimento di Matematica of the Università di Catania from 1992 to 1994. Then he moved to Salerno as a Professor of Computer Science. His main research area is Theoretical Computer Science with a special focus on Cryptography. He was an early contributor to Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge and to Searchable Encryption. He is a big fan of writer William Gibson, composer Philip Glass and of the Juventus Football Club. His palmares as a "tifoso" includes two World Cups, with a third one coming up soon.

Philippe is a senior legal practitioner specialising in corporate and securities laws with an emphasis on tech companies. He has been practising in Asia for 25 years. He advises both emerging and established companies throughout their corporate lifecycle providing counsel to their projects for growth (financing, venture capital, M&A). He has developed a deep expertise in the blockchain industry and has gone on to advise wide-ranging clients in the blockchain industry from founders of layer-1 or 2 public blockchains, non-profit token foundations, dApps, DAOs, Web3 companies, private investment funds, crypto-exchanges, centralised and decentralised intermediaries. Philippe also advises and assists numerous organizations on corporate governance matters. He is currently serving or has served as director of various profit and not-for-profit organizations (foundations, university, professional bodies). He has also served as an expert appointed by the United Nations for a research program on Business and Human Rights. He is registered with the Paris Bar Association and the Ministry of Law of Singapore as a foreign lawyer to practise in Singapore, where he has been living and working for the past 20 years.

Prior to joining the Algorand Foundation as its CEO, Staci ran the Center for Financial Markets and the Global Market Development practice at the Milken Institute, where she led its work on Fintech and financial innovation, capital market development, crypto/blockchain, and development finance. Prior to Milken, Staci ran JPMorgan’s EMEA public sector practice out of London for eight years. Before JPMorgan, she led the Nasdaq’s two markets for microcap companies, and in the public and non-profit sectors had senior economist roles at the U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development. Staci has done business in more than 50 countries and has advised and spoken widely on the potential for blockchain technology to solve real-world problems, and for financial innovation to improve financial inclusion and access to capital. Staci sits on the boards of the Algorand Foundation and the Global Blockchain Business Council. She also serves on the advisory committees of the U.S. Financial Technology Association and Evolution Environmental Asset Management.