The TSC of Hiero

The Hiero Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is the committee responsible for technical governance within the Hiero project.

About the TSC

The Hiero Technical Steering Committee (TSC) is a committee of members who serve the project's technical governance.

The duties, goals, and rights of the TSC are defined in the technical charter of the Hiero project.

This page provides an overview of the current committee members and links to the core governance resources used by the project.

Committee Members

The committee is composed of contributors from across the Hiero ecosystem. Member bios reflect their current roles and ongoing work in open-source governance and technical delivery.

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Richard Bair

GitHub@rbair23

Richard is Vice President of Engineering at Hashgraph. Before the Hedera ecosystem, he was a Chief Client Architect for the Java platform at Oracle, and an architect for ...

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Dr. Leemon Baird

GitHub@lbaird

Leemon is the Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Hashgraph. The inventor of the organization’s namesake, the distributed hashgraph consensus algorithm, Leemon co-founded t...

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Brandon Davenport

GitHub@itsbrandondev

Brandon Davenport is Director of Communications at Hgraph, a leading infrastructure provider and technical partner for enterprise, startups and developers. He pairs 15 ye...

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Hendrik Ebbers

GitHub@hendrikebbers

Hendrik Ebbers is a member of the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation. He is leading several open-source projects as a member of working groups and committees li...

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Michael Kantor

GitHub@kantorcodes

Michael is the President of Hashgraph Online, a DAO-led and governed open-source organization with the mandate of creating a decentralized, agentic internet. Hashgraph On...

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Georgi Lazarov

GitHub@georgi-l95

Georgi Lazarov is a technical lead at LimeChain with more than 5 years of experience in the blockchain industry. He is a core committer to the tooling around Hiero, like ...

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Stoyan Panayotov

GitHub@stoqnkpL

Stoyan Panayotov is a software architect at Limechain with several years of experience in the blockchain industry consulting various clients - decentralized networks, pro...

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Alex Popowycz

GitHub@popowycz

Alex is the Chief Information Officer of Hedera and is charged with the technical operations of the network in close partnership with Hedera's member operators, ensuring ...

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Milan Wiercx van Rhijn

GitHub@MilanWR

Milan Wiercx van Rhijn is a longtime Hedera builder and leads The HBAR Foundry, a grassroots collective of developers. A multi-time Hedera Hackathon winner, he created pr...