Dr. Tomicah Tillemann is co-founder and Director of the Blockchain Trust Accelerator at New America, which works with organizations including the Rockefeller Foundation, State Department, Coca-cola, Harvard and Levi Strauss to deploy blockchain solutions in governance and social impact applications worldwide. He chairs the Global Blockchain Business Council and advises Bitfury and other leading technology companies. He previously served at the State Department and Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a speechwriter and advisor to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Joe Biden. He was educated at Yale and Johns Hopkins and is a co-holder of four patents.