Hiero Technical Governance

The TSC of Hiero

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

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Governance

About the TSC

The duties, goals, and rights of the committee are defined in the technical charter of the Hiero project. This page lists the committee as it stands today, alongside the governance resources the project works from.

Vendor neutral
Open meetings
Public charter

The committee

Who sits on the TSC

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.

9 members currently seated on the committee

Richard Bair
@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 ...
Dr. Leemon Baird
@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...
Brandon Davenport
@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...
Hendrik Ebbers
@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...
Michael Kantor
@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...
Georgi Lazarov
@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 ...
Stoyan Panayotov
@stoqnkpL
Stoyan Panayotov is a software architect at Limechain with several years of experience in the blockchain industry consulting various clients - decentralized networks, pro...
Alex Popowycz
@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 ...
Milan Wiercx van Rhijn
@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...