Bob Summerwill

crypto veteran

About

As Head of Ecosystem at BlockApps, Bob is helping to drive the transition of STRATO Mercata from a closed-source platform to a rich, decentralized ecosystem, bridging on-chain and real world assets.

Bob Summerwill was previously Executive Director for the ETC Cooperative and has been working full-time on blockchain projects since late 2015. He worked on Ethereum and Hyperledger in earlier years, followed by a switch to Ethereum Classic and a belated Bitcoin orange-pilling. He has a growing interest in privacy projects.

Bob has been programming since 1984 and as a professional software engineer since 1996 (primarily working on AAA video games). Originally from the UK, he has lived in Vancouver since 2003, and is now a dual citizen of Canada and the UK.

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