Gavin Andresen
Bitcoin Foundation
Chief Scientist
Gavin Andresen is Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation and is one of the original developers of the Bitcoin protocol. He is a leading contributor to the Bitcoin SourceForge project. Since Satoshi Nakamoto’s disappearance, Gavin has been an informal ambassador for the network. At the Bitcoin Foundation, Gavin heads a team of programmers who work to improve and standardize the existing code. Before joining the Bitcoin movement, Gavin was part of a wide variety of software-related ventures, including a company that made multiplayer online games for blind people and their sighted friends. He started his career writing software at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, a 3D graphics hardware company and is creator of ClearCoin and BitcoinFaucet.