KILT Team

• Product Owner and Research Lead

  Márton is a research scientist with experience in telecommunications, network science and neuroscience. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer science from Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

  

  Márton Csernai

• Product Owner and Technical Lead

  Timo is a Full Stack Developer, working in Blockchain Technology since 2016. He has a proven track record in Open Source development and was part of the Thunder Core Team (thunder.org). Timo graduated in Computer Science at the Berlin University of Technology. He is also a biker.

  

  Timo Welde

• Product Owner and Blockchain Developer

  William is a Software Developer who works on the node and protocol level. He studied Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin, his hometown. Apart from coding, he enjoys the outdoors and playing Spikeball.

  

  William Freudenberger

• UI/UX and Graphic Design Specialist

  Andreas is a UI/UX, Web and Graphic Designer with 20 years of work experience in design. He has worked in many important publishing and IT projects. He is a great Post-it artist and famous for his KrautzCats.

  

  Andreas Krautzberger

• Blockchain Developer

  Dudley is a Full-stack developer with a background in Engineering. He is also a Game master.

  

  Dudley Needham

• Philosophical & Ethical Advisor

  Raphael is a student at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and holds a degree in philosophy. He is specialised in Social Cognition, Evolutionary Anthropology and Social Theory. Fascinated by KILT’s goals in the disembodied online world he has contributed to shaping the vision of KILT and creating the KILT white paper.

  

  Raphael Flechtner

• Operations Director

  Matthias has twenty years of professional and leadership experience in developing and shipping digital services for the internet and media industry. Since the early days of the internet he has been managing the development of front end and back end internet services for high traffic and scalable products.

  

  Matthias Möller

• Legal Director

  Gustav is a lawyer with a strong IT law background and more than fifteen years of experience as a lawyer in corporate and legal firms. Since early 2017 he has been bridging his contract knowledge with blockchain technology, studied a bit of Computer Sciences, and is dedicated to solve legal challenges around Blockchain and KILT Protocol.

  

  Gustav Hemmelmayr

• Founder and CEO

  Ingo Rübe is the founder and CEO of BOTLabs, the company that develops KILT Protocol. As CTO of Hubert Burda Media he initiated the open-source CMS Thunder and he was previously IT Project Director at Axel Springer. Ingo is a founding member of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) and served on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association.

  

  Ingo Rübe

• Communications and Public Relations Manager

  Elisa was an International Business student at European University Viadrina. She is specialised in innovative marketing, informative and operative management and communication. At KILT she leads the communications and public relations operations.

  

  Elisa Dratsdrummer

• Acting CFO

  Kasper joins KILT as a consultant and acting CFO. He has over 20 years of financial and compliance experience with firms like Maersk, Nortel Networks and KPMG. Kasper is CFO of Web3 Foundation, which supports teams building the decentralized web; Polkadot is the Foundation’s flagship project. Kasper also cofounded ComplyTo, a compliance platform for European SMBs dealing with GDPR.

  

  Kasper Mai Jørgensen

• Blockchain Developer

  Albrecht is a developer who works on the node and protocol. He graduated from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with a Master's degree in Computer Science. He enjoys adventurous cycling tours.

  

  Albrecht Weiche

• Project Manager Communications & Agile Processes

  Joana is an IT Project Manager and Certified KILT Integrator specialised in Scrum. She combines her academic background in Communication Sciences and Psychology with her professional experience as Scrum Master and Product Owner in numerous software projects. At KILT she is part of the Communications team and coaches the team in Agile Product Management frameworks.

  

  Joana Papageorgiou

• Team Assistant

  Irena has a Master’s degree in Journalism (Public Relations) from the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb.
  She has more than 5 years of experience in event and project organisation and in the planning, implementation and coordination of administrative tasks. Our master of the books.

  Irena Pocrnja

• Blockchain Developer

  Leon is a Computer Science and Integrated Systems student at the Technical University of Berlin. He has previously worked as developer and technical consultant at multiple blockchain startups and is now part of the developer team at KILT. He is also Global Elite.

  Leon Wenzel

• Vice President of Business Development

  Christine Mohan has 25 years of experience in software and digital media, working for startups and corporates including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Previously she was CMO of Web3 Foundation / Polkadot and co-founder of Civil Media, a blockchain syndication platform.

  

  Christine Mohan