Featured in Forbes' first-ever list of cryptocurrency's most powerful and influential people, "Prophet of Boom" JOSEPH LUBIN is the Founder & CEO of ConsenSys, one of the largest and fastest growing blockchain companies in the world, with over 1,000 employees across 28 countries. He is also the Co-Founder of Ethereum, a groundbreaking blockchain computing platform, and the second-largest public blockchain by value. 

Also named to CoinDesk's "Most Influential In Blockchain," Lubin is renowned for his innovative and creative leadership style, and has taken ConsenSys and Ethereum through exponential growth. Under his watch the number of ConsenSys employees has exploded by over 400%, and the organization has grown to include 37 different companies across industries including prediction markets, energy and supply chain. Ethereum has experienced a similarly meteoric rise, "attracting attention from giants in finance and technology, like JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and IBM, which have described it as a sort of Bitcoin 2.0," according to The New York Times. 

In his compelling keynotes, Lubin reveals the transformative power of blockchain technology and his vision for a decentralized future. Reflecting on his journey co-creating Ethereum, Lubin sheds light on how the technology has the power to transform industries, and how companies can better understand and tap into its power. 
"Joseph Lubin, the founder of... behemoth ConsenSys... began his career working in robotics, machine vision, neural nets and software engineering. He then transitioned into finance, building trading systems, running a hedge fund and working for Goldman Sachs' private wealth management division... After reading the Satoshi Nakamoto Bitcoin white paper, he felt blockchain technology, and its possibility for creating shared infrastructure, could serve as 'an organizing principle for Earth, the world, the planet...'"

—Forbes
"In a jam-packed SXSW keynote titled, “Ethereum Will Change The World,” which earned a line across the entire fourth floor of the Austin convention center and down two flights of stairs, Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin balanced his exuberant predictions of the future with calm calls for more robust regulation..."
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Joseph Lubin's impressive career accomplishments include >>
After graduating with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, Lubin got his start in the Princeton Robotics Lab and then at private research firm Vision Applications Inc, building autonomous mobile robots.

With a tremendous breadth of experience in work focused at the intersection of cryptography, engineering, and finance, Lubin worked his way up the ladder at numerous high-profile organizations. As a software engineer and consultant, he worked with eMagine on the Identrus project and was involved in the founding and operation of a hedge fund. He also held positions as Director of the New York office of Blacksmith Software Consulting, and VP of Technology in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. 
Since joining Ethereum and ConsenSys, Lubin has become an in-demand leader on blockchain and the future of technology. A regular headline-maker in industry outlets such as Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, CryptoSlate, and more, thanks to his trailblazing work, Lubin is also frequently sought-out by CNBC and Bloomberg to illuminate what is happening in the crypto and blockchain space. 
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An accomplished and celebrator innovator at the forefront of blockchain and our decentralized future, Joseph Lubin illuminates where new technologies are taking us and how organizations across industries can reap the benefits. Passionate, informative, and optimistic, he leaves audiences inspired and thinking differently about the future of tech.