Gnosis

Martin Köppelmann has been an entrepreneur and thought leader in the blockchain space for more than 3 years. He is the founder of the biggest Bitcoin prediction market, Fairlay, but has shifted his focus to Ethereum and co-founded the decentralized Gnosis prediction market - the first bigger DAPP that went live on Ethereum. Closely related to prediction markets is his work on decentralized market driven governance mechanisms: Futarchy. Beyond the entrepreneurial activity Martin has done research on the economic incentive structure of different consensus mechanisms and scalability solutions via state channels. Martin co-hosts the Ethereum meetup groups in the Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Finally, Martin is well known for his work and research on “basic income on the blockchain: Circles” - a new currency built on top of Ethereum that aims to implement a basic income as monetary policy.

Stefan George's work experience begins in 2011 when they served as an intern in Research at SAP Labs, where they collaborated with teams from Palo Alto and Potsdam to develop an iPad application.In 2015, Stefan joined Consensus Systems (ConsenSys) as the CTO of Gnosis, a role they held until 2017.In 2017, Stefan co-founded Gnosis Limited and currently serves as the Co-Founder and CTO.Stefan George pursued their Bachelor's degree in IT-Systems Engineering from the University of Potsdam between 2007 and 2010. Stefan then went on to obtain a Master's degree in the same field from the Hasso Plattner Institut from 2010 to 2013.

Friederike Ernst is the COO of Gnosis. On top of her work with Gnosis, Friederike is also the secretary-general of the German Blockchain Association, the leading think tank on blockchain policy in Germany.