Gavin Wood

Bio

Dr. Gavin Wood is the founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has designed state-of-the-art analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups. Dr. Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world from keynotes at regional technology conferences to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York.

Previously, he was the chief technology officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation. Dr. Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.

Career

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	Web3 Foundation - founder Foundation nurturing cutting-edge applications for decentralized web software protocols. Member of the Council
	Polkadot - founder Layer-0 blockchain that allows for blockchain interoperability and scalability. N/A
	Parity Technologies Parity's mission is to enable businesses and organisations to capitalise on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities. Chief Technology Officer
	Ethereum Foundation - founder Open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract functionality. Chief Technology Officer (past)

Education

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The University of York PhD in Computer Science

Selected investments

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Company		Profile	Funding
	AltLayer	Decentralized protocol that empowers developers to create rollups from various software stacks, offering a rollup-as-a-service model.	N/A Initial investment