Funding the Commons San Francisco 2025

Paul Brody

Paul Brody is the Global Blockchain Leader at EY (Ernst & Young) since 2015, overseeing the firm’s blockchain strategy and solutions, including the OpsChain tokenization platform and Blockchain Analyzer analytics tools.

As a prominent advocate for public blockchains and privacy technology, Paul has led EY to develop the Nightfall privacy-enabled Ethereum Layer 2 network and the Starlight zero-knowledge compiler, both contributed to the public domain and the Ethereum community.

Before joining EY, Paul held various roles at IBM, including Electronics Industry Vice President. He began his career at McKinsey & Co. in Los Angeles and holds a degree in Economics and a certificate in African Studies from Princeton University.


Session

03-15
15:50
20min
Funding Open Source & Decentralized Development, from Enterprise to AI Agents
Paul Brody, Timour Kosters

EY has been building and developing blockchain privacy technology for nearly a decade. This is a conversation about the ins and outs of sustaining a public-service oriented development and how we built the justify the business case.

Main Stage