Co-founder of the Ethereum network and head of ConsenSys, a blockchain application development company.
Back in the 1990s, long before founding ConsenSys, one of the most notable blockchain startups, he went to work at Goldman Sachs and rose to the position of vice president of technology in the capital management division. Also, before joining the Ethereum project, he worked on a music project in Jamaica.
In early 2014, Lubin was a co-founder of Ethereum and served as chief operating officer of Ethereum Switzerland GmbH (EthSuisse), a company working to extend the capabilities of the type of blockchain technology first popularized by Bitcoin, and extend the capabilities of the blockchain to store programs in addition to data, as well as facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of smart contracts. The new generation of distributed crypto-secure databases with smart contract functionality has been referred to as “Blockchain 2.0“.
Lubin was also involved in the creation of the Ethereum Foundation.
He subsequently founded ConsenSys in 2015, a decentralized blockchain production studio. It develops software mainly for the Ethereum blockchain system. It also provides decentralized software services to companies. They also do enterprise and government consulting.
Lubin has been personally involved in cross-industry groups attempting to advance solutions to governance issues in the blockchain industry.
