OUR
PEOPLE
Martin Walker
Martin Walker has almost three decades experience working in banking and financial software. Previous roles include Global Head of Securities Finance and Treasury IT at Dresdner Bank and Global Head of Prime Brokerage Technology at RBS Markets.
He has had numerous articles, papers and a book, Designing and Changing Trade Processing Infrastructure, published. His research is mostly focused on fintech, finance and management.
Media outlets that have quoted or interviewed him include the Financial Times, The Times, the BBC, Bloomberg, Reuters, Business Insider, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, Wired, AFP, Daily Express, Forbes, New Statesman, Australian Financial Review, Business Insider and The Hill.
He has an MSc in Computing Science from Imperial College, a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, is a fellow of the Center for Evidence Based Management and an honorary research fellow of the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology at Warwick Business School. .
Jackie Sawicky
Jackie Sawicky is an environmental activist, photographer, and former Girl Scout who was taught to leave a place better than she found it. She is the founder of the Texas Coalition Against Cryptomining and a member of the National Coalition Against Cryptomining. Jackie has been a grassroots organizer and good troublemaker for over 20 years.
Peter Howson
Peter Howson is a technology writer, researcher, and Assistant Professor in International Development and Environmental Science at Northumbria University, Newcastle. He investigates the green-washing, aid-washing, and crypto-shenanigans that go on in Silicon Valley, as well as the lesser-known tech hubs of the Global South.
David Gerard
David Gerard is the author of the books Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain and Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money. He also blogs at Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, including an ongoing series on the post-2022 cryptocurrency collapse with Amy Castor.
Stephen Diehl
Stephen Diehl earned a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Boston University. He is the author of several open source data and networking libraries. His recent work has been related to building next-generation NumPy infrastructure to support out-of-core and distributed work-flows. Stephen is knowledgeable in distributed systems and scientific programming
Alex De Vries
Alex De Vries is a researcher at the School of Business and Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research focusses on the environmental sustainability of crypto-assets and blockchain technology. In 2014 he founded digiconomist.net, which provides estimates on various sustainability metrics for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin.
Amy Castor
Amy Castor is an independent reporter, focused on cryptocurrencies and NFTs. her stories have appeared in Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, Artnet News, MIT Technology Review, Business Insider, CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Bitcoin Magazine, Forbes, and Modern Consensus.
Sal Bayat
Sal Bayat is a recovering sysadmin and 15 veteran of the mobile industry. He’s always had a passion for building things, and was lucky enough to help create one of the world's first text-to-911 emergency response systems. Sal has expertise in designing and operating highly available infrastructure systems, blogs on his website, and recommends that everyone think about technology like Ursula K. Le Guin.
"Technology is the active human interface with the material world."