About the Authors

Michael Bradley is the global Program Director for Blockchain Enablement and Education for IBM. He is responsible for the enabling of IBMers and clients to advocate, sell, and deliver IBM’s blockchain offerings. He has had a variety of roles with IBM and over 20 years of industry experience. Michael’s leadership roles in IBM have spanned the Development Labs (Messaging, IoT, Emerging Technologies) and IBM Services (Consultancy & Strategic Outsourcing), giving him a deep and broad business understanding.

David Gorman is part of IBM’s global blockchain team, and is based at IBM’s development lab in Hursley, England. The team is the center of blockchain client engagement worldwide for IBM. In this role, Dave works with customers across a broad spectrum of industries and use cases, including the financial services sector, enabling them in their understanding of blockchain and how they can best make use of the technology. Dave has worked in the IT industry for over 28 years, including several years in enterprise middleware integration technologies and performance analysis.

Matt Lucas is part of IBM’s global blockchain team. His role is to help clients understand and apply blockchain technologies, and he works closely with emerging blockchain fabrics such as Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum. Through collaboration with various universities worldwide, he also helps the next generation of computing professionals understand technology and its application in business. He is based in IBM’s development laboratory in Hursley, England, and has worked with IBM for over 20 years on a variety of integration middleware technologies. Most recently he spent several years working on IBM Integration Bus in the product architecture and offering management disciplines. You can contact Matt on Twitter using @mqmatt, or via email at [email protected].

Matthew Golby-Kirk is part of IBM’s global blockchain engagement team and has delivered over 100 client events, briefings, and hands-on labs on IBM’s Blockchain Platform and Hyperledger Fabric around the world. He is based at IBM’s development laboratory in Hursley, England, and has worked with IBM for almost 20 years on a variety of integration and middleware technologies. Prior to his time with the blockchain team, he spent several years working on IBM Integration Bus in the product development team, responsible for many areas of product functionality.