Salman A. Baset is the CTO of security in IBM Blockchain Solutions. Luc Desrosiers is an IBM-certified IT architect with 20+ years of experience. Nitin Gaur, is the director of IBM's Blockchain Labs, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Petr Novotny is a research scientist at IBM Research, with an MSc from University College London and PhD from Imperial College London, where he was also a post-doctoral research associate. Anthony O'Dowd works in IBM's Blockchain team and is based in Europe. Venkatraman Ramakrishna is an IBM researcher with a BTech from IIT Kharagpur and PhD from UCLA. Weimin Sun is an expert in designing data-driven solutions. Xun (Brian) Wu is an author, founder, and board advisor for several blockchain start-ups.