Douglas Horn

Founder & CEO

​​Douglas is the founder and CEO of GoodBlock, architect and whitepaper author of the Telos Network, and leader of the Telos Core Developers.

When creating the Telos Network, Douglas pulled together a global group of grassroots contributors that is one of the few groups to ever create nearly half a billion dollars of market value in 3 years as a fully bootstrapped project with no outside funding. With deep expertise in Web3 governance, tokenomics and game theory, he was the primary initial author of the Telos Core Governance documents, and has spoken at blockchain conferences around the globe to bring awareness to the possibilities of trustless governance. He has created a number of inventions and innovations in the Web3/blockchain field including TBonds, Decide Governance Engine, and dStor decentralized storage.

Prior to blockchain, Douglas worked as a creative in computer, filmed entertainment, and game development, working with large clients such as Microsoft, Amazon Payments and Web Services, and top brands including Disney, Pokémon International and Activision. He has contributed to the invention and development of over 150 published games. The daily process of iterative play-testing as a game designer gave him practical experience in technical game theory that drives his understanding of human behavior.

Prior to creative work, Douglas was a software developer performing Japanese software conversion for clients like Symantec, as well as a frequent writer on technical computing. He has had nearly 100 articles published in computing magazines, and is a co-author of a programming book published by Wrox Press.

Douglas graduated from the University of Southern California where he was a member of the 1989 Pac-10 Conference champion USC sailing team. He also attended Waseda University in Tokyo for a year where he competed on the university’s club-level intercollegiate Tomiki Aikido team. While in Japan, he worked as an intern for the Advance Team of Ronald Reagan’s post-presidential Japan visit which raised millions of dollars for earthquake relief and introduced Douglas to fascinating workings of government and international diplomacy.

Douglas credits his time in the film industry with his ability to build and maintain fluid and often under-resourced teams of high contributors throughout extended project life cycles:

“Working on independent films is what taught me how to pull together a community of people who are talented, but often have different motivations, while working with very limited resources, to deliver a multi-year project.”

Today, Douglas focuses on creating foundational Web3 tools to empower individuals to work together effectively in trustless ways beyond traditional governance structures to better fight back against the rising risks of authoritarianism and ecological collapse. In addition to Telos and GoodBlock projects he contributes to regenerative economy projects including Seeds/Hypha, LocalScale, and Kanda Weather.

Douglas lives in the Cascade mountains near Seattle with his wife and their two children.

Erika Elder

Operations

Erika is a highly efficient and collaborative operations professional with a background in video production, hospitality, and nonprofits. At GoodBlock, she is responsible for keeping track of the big picture and identifying areas of improvement within the company, including long-term planning to further the company’s overall goals. 

After studying communications at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Erika moved to Seattle and worked with companies such as Microsoft, Audi, and Amazon to coordinate and produce a diverse range of local and national video projects. Erika’s affinity for technology is what drew her to join the GoodBlock team in 2019, putting her organizational expertise to work with a goal of bringing Web3 to the forefront.

If Erika has free time you will find her wandering around in the woods.

CJ Walters

Product

CJ is a results driven project manager with an eye always on the big picture.  After completing coursework for a bachelor of arts in Management of Human Resources, CJ left university to dive into the then emerging business of freelance web design in the late 1990s. With high levels of tenacity and integrity, CJ used her education and experience to earn positions with increasing responsibility and trust in the marketing industry.

In 2018 she left the head of operations position at a full-service marketing agency to freelance in marketing and public relations in the world of blockchain technology.  Here she found synergy with Douglas and GoodBlock and came aboard to focus on guiding and leading teams in efficiently executing the development strategies for the GoodBlock Technologies’ products. She lives in the Willamette Valley in Oregon with her partner and a small menagerie of pets.

Leah Petersen

Business Development

Leah has a Bachelor of Science from Santa Clara University. She graduated with a dual focus in public sector studies and law. After graduation she began working in the Bay Area for leading digital legal non-profit, Nolo.com. She worked as a senior SEO/SEM lead, and was then recruited by Nolo’s CEO to join his digital leads startup Lead5 to bootstrap the SEO/SEM and analytics team. From there she quickly realized she had a passion for connecting with partners, and had a talent for creating synergistic relationships for companies. After leaving California, she moved to Central Oregon where she joined a digital education startup, Choose Growth. She exited the company as Director of Operations. She now works on the bleeding edge of tech, focusing on bringing money and talent to Web3 via GoodBlock.

Sean Anderson

Growth

Sean graduated with an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Science degree from Oklahoma Wesleyan College. Focused on developing teams and communication, Sean is passionate about helping organizations hone their message, create their Business Development strategies and raise capital. He has been called upon to help companies such as The Ghannad Group, Weber Consulting, Video Narrative and TokenOro find their voice and build strategies that propel them forward to their next level. His unique set of skills as both a creative and a closer have allowed him to lead teams and organizations into spaces of growth both financially and functionally.

Nathaniel Moss

System Administration & Software Development

Nathaniel is an exuberant digital wizard. He has been privileged to work on a variety of interesting hardware projects, from hacking school token rings in 7th grade to working on time clock software to maintaining a co-location of 400 servers to experimenting with wireless Arduino to collect in-field soil hydration and temperature data to supporting Enterprise-level customers with cloud-based sales tax solutions to running a Pokemon GO map service to flying drones. The networkability of the cloud and computer hardware have always been personal passions of his, making working on blockchain technology a natural evolution of his talents.

His favorite sports team is UGA. He is a graduate of Wichita State University, but now lives in the Seattle area with the love of his life and their two cats.

Will Hill

Developer Extraordinaire

With twenty five years experience in the web development arena, and the last six specifically in blockchain. Will brings a wealth of experience along with an entrepreneurial drive. Building and driving technical teams around the world in both the professional services and the creative agency settings.

Will has successfully delivered projects for the likes of Channel 4 TV, Cancer Research UK, The United Nations, Bitcoin ATM.
A regular attendee to Devcon and an enthusiastic decentralize everything advocate, he is at home with IPFS, Ethereuem and EOS based Blockchains.
Living in the wilds of Scotland, Will likes it as remote as possible to maintain a zen like poise and razor sharp focus.

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