Partisia Blockchain Basis, an unbiased non-profit basis with the only function of supporting Partisia Blockchain, the world’s most superior internet-privacy infrastructure, pronounces the appointment of Hinrich Pfeifer to the place of Chief Operations Officer.
Hinrich will work alongside co-founders, Kurt Nielsen, Peter Frandsen and Brian Gallagher, to scale the inspiration and assist the blockchain enlargement and on-chain options to real-world issues, equivalent to self-sovereign digital id, commerce finance gaps, humanitarian financial support, or struggle in opposition to cybercrime or counterfeiting.
Hinrich joins the Partisia Blockchain Basis, bringing his huge expertise as Basic Secretary of the Cardano Basis and custodian of the world’s fastest-growing prime 10 blockchains. Throughout his tenure, he constructed and led the worldwide crew of the inspiration, oversaw the event of the protocol, and drove the adoption of the blockchain.
Within the newly-created position as Chief Working Officer at Partisia Blockchain Basis, Hinrich, based mostly in Zug, Switzerland, will oversee Partisia Blockchain’s operations and long-term imaginative and prescient and technique. He will likely be liable for making certain that the inspiration’s operations are run easily, constructed for continued development, ship best-in-class developer and person assist and guarantee strict adherence to Switzerland’s monetary rules.
Partisia Blockchain Basis President, Kurt Nielsen, mentioned, “Hinrich is a uncommon expertise who possesses virtually twenty years of deep information in each fintech and excessive development digital asset environments. His big selection of expertise at UBS, coupled with constructing the Cardano Basis throughout a hyper-growth part, particularly, will likely be invaluable as we chart our path to changing into a prime 5 layer 1 and layer 2 blockchain.”
Hinrich Pfeifer, Chief Operations Officer, commented, “Partisia Blockchain’s distinctive element of multi-party computation brings the essential however lacking component of privateness to blockchain. Working within the banking and blockchain business for greater than a decade, I’ve seen the facility of the expertise and the way it will revolutionize the monetary business. I’m dedicated to creating the Partisia Blockchain Basis a powerful, resilient and globally numerous crew to ship the guarantees that multi-party computation gives to each the monetary sector, and to all industries.”
Hinrich is the newest of quite a few senior hires for Partisia Blockchain, which has doubled its headcount over the previous 12 months. Since April 2022, the corporate has introduced Iulia Mihailescu, as Chief Advertising and marketing Officer, Jennifer de Broglie as Director of Thought Management, and now, Hinrich Pfeifer, following his achievements on the Cardano Basis and UBS, to spearhead its speedy enlargement.