Dan (CMO & Head of Community, Digital Asset) was the co-founder and CEO of Hyperledger, a San Francisco-based technology firm that developed an innovative distributed ledger to allow financial institutions to clear and settle transactions in real-time. Prior to Hyperledger, Dan lived in Beijing where he founded and served as the CEO of MadeiraCloud (VisualOps), a visual cloud management and automation tool for Amazon Web Services. Dan was the first elected Chair of the Marketing Committee at the Linux Foundation's open source blockchain initiative, Hyperledger, and was recently re-elected for a second term.