Joseph Lubin
Joseph Lubin is co-founder of Ethereum, the founder and CEO of
Consensys and Chairman of SharpLink (Nasdaq: SBET). Since 2014,
Consensys has played a foundational role in Ethereum’s growth, from
pioneering products like MetaMask, Linea and Infura to shaping
protocol development and staking infrastructure.
Born and raised in Toronto, Lubin graduated from Princeton University
with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He
worked in the Princeton Robotics Lab, at tomandandy music
developing an autonomous music composition tool, and at private
research firm Vision Applications Inc. building autonomous mobile
robots.
As a software and AI consultant, Lubin worked with eMagine on the
Identrus project and was involved in the founding and operation of a
hedge fund with a partner. He held positions as Director of the New
York office of Blacksmith Software Consulting, and VP of Technology
in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. Through these
posts, Joe focused on the intersection of cryptography, engineering,
and finance.
In 2014 he met Vitalik Buterin, a Canadian programmer, writer and
Founder of Ethereum and joined the Ethereum Project as a
co-founder. After the Project was launched, Joe established
Consensys. Since 2014 Joe and the Consensys team have been
working on the foundational software for web3, the next wave of the
internet for a decentralized future.