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Hedera CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Mance Harmon is the Hedera's CEO. Hedera has 124 employees, of which 24 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Hedera executive team is 25% female and 75% male.
  • 63% of the management team is White.
  • 8% of Hedera management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 10% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Mance Harmon

Co-Founder and CEO

Mance Harmon's LinkedIn

Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-Founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder / 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 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.

Pradeep Iyer

Founder

Scott Thiel

Founder & Entrepreneur-In-Residence

Leemon Baird

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist

Leemon Baird's LinkedIn

Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. 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.

Brett McDowell

Chair

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Alex Popowycz

Chief Information Officer

Sam Brylski

Regulatory Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

Brian P. Jeffords

Board Member

Shyam Nagarajan

Executive Partner

Tasker Generes

Vice President

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Name & TitleBio
Mance Harmon

Co-Founder and CEO

Mance Harmon's LinkedIn

Mance is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, and is Co-Founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph. His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder / 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 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.

Pradeep Iyer

Founder

Scott Thiel

Founder & Entrepreneur-In-Residence

Leemon Baird

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist

Leemon Baird's LinkedIn

Leemon is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hedera. 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.

Hedera board members

Name & TitleBio
Brett McDowell

Chair

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Brian P. Jeffords

Board Member

Aaron Moore

Board Member

David Cohen

Board Member

Slava Rubin

Board Member

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