Bob Summerwill

Overview

As Head of Ecosystem at BlockApps, Bob Summerwill is helping drive STRATO’s transition from a closed-source platform to a rich, decentralized ecosystem—bridging on-chain and real-world assets.

Community and history work

Bob also leads the Early Days of Ethereum history project, including extensive content and an ongoing conversations series.

He regularly speaks at conferences; see his schedule at bobsummerwill.com/schedule.

Prior lives

• Executive Director, ETC Cooperative (2019–2024)
• Organized Proof of Work Summit (2023, 2024) and ETC Summit (2019)
• Worked on the launch and first year of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (2016–2017) while at ConsenSys
• Various Hyperledger activities (on and off since 2016)
• Core developer on cpp-ethereum (aleth) at the Ethereum Foundation (2016)
• Built cpp-ethereum-cross (ARM Linux cross-builds) (2015–2016)
• Smartwatch developer (Gear S2): deployment write-up (2015)
• Creator of MonoTizen and wrote about Tizen (later also Sailfish OS: Wikipedia) (2014)
• 18 years and 20 AAA games in the games industry (including 6× FIFA): bobliography
  Employers include Psygnosis, Electronic Arts, Roadhouse Interactive, DeNA, and Sony (Sony Interactive Entertainment) (1996–2014)

Background

Bob has been programming since 1984, starting at age ten. Originally from the UK, he has lived in Vancouver since 2003 and is now a dual citizen of Canada and the UK.