It’s with disappointment that we announce that Ming Chan, who has served as Govt Director on the Ethereum Basis for almost three years, is leaving the Basis. Since her arrival in 2015, she has performed a important function within the improvement and success of the Basis. We’ll miss the management, dedication and integrity that she delivered to the Basis, and want to thank her for her devoted service and plenty of important accomplishments together with:
- A number of rounds of reorganization for the Basis, in addition to considerably bettering effectivity and lowering prices
- Constructing relationships with IC3 and different tutorial teams
- Navigating and supporting the Basis by way of a number of troublesome challenges, together with the DAO hack and 2016 DoS assaults
- Overseeing a number of main profitable laborious forks, together with Homestead and Metropolis
- Overseeing three profitable Devcon occasions
To deal with present and future management wants for the Basis, we now have already accomplished our seek for a worthy successor. Efficient February 1, 2018, Aya Miyaguchi might be assuming the function of Govt Director on the Ethereum Basis. Aya is a veteran of the blockchain house and was most lately the Managing Director of Kraken Japan. She brings a few years of organizational management expertise to the desk and has a ardour for non-profits and social enterprise. We really feel lucky to have her be part of us and welcome her warmly to her new function.
“Having been concerned in several layers of the blockchain ecosystem, I’m conscious of the the enhancements that must occur on the core degree of the Ethereum platform, and that these enhancements can solely occur with the help of a robust neighborhood. I’m excited to be taking up this function, and to help the analysis and improvement efforts and the relationships inside the neighborhood,” Aya says.
We look ahead to working with Aya because the Basis continues to evolve and develop within the coming years. There are lots of thrilling developments for our ecosystem on the horizon, and we anticipate even larger breakthroughs within the coming days and close to future. Please be part of us in wishing Ming a heartfelt farewell, and in welcoming Aya to the Ethereum Basis.
The Board of Administrators, Stiftung Ethereum
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