A brief bio for each voting member is provided below along with our neuron ID and social media account links. Each voting member listed below is configured as a Followee of the Synapse neuron for one or more proposal topic. Our neuron votes according to the rules of majority as defined by the NNS.
Wenzel Bartlett
Neuron ID: 8269903528373981952
Husband, father, chemist, analyzer engineer, #8yeargang. Learned about the internet computer at genesis in May 2021 and became hooked immediately. I love the passion and enthusiasm I see from the IC community and want to do everything I can to catalyze growth of the IC ecosystem.
Bob Bodily is the Co-Founder and CEO of Toniq Labs. He also created icp.guide and nftvillage.ai. He has been heavily involved in the ICP Maximalist community since the very beginning.
Manu Drijvers is a cryptographer that works on consensus & chain key cryptography at the DFINITY Foundation.
Co-founder of 9Yards Capital, a venture capital investment firm. Formerly worked in private equity at Leonard Green and banking at & JP Morgan. English with South African roots. I am extremely excited about the future of ICP!
Logic researcher in Paris, it is however as an investor that I interact with the world of blockchain, because if my job has made me aware of some of its notions and its beauty, I have on the other hand no IT skills. I discovered the Internet Computer just after having entered into the blockchain space, in May 2021. I immediately fell in love with it and decided to reinvest into the ICP all of what I had invested into the other blockchains. Although my passion for the Internet Computer has now largely exceeded my initial exclusive interest in investing and I am now absolutely interested in everything that happens there, I think it was important to have among the ICPMN voting members at least one or a couple of ambassadors of the pure investors, although again like Wenzel and many others, the pure investor that I was, quickly became an ICP Maximalist.
JustMyThoughts is a full time software engineer, and part-time IC developer. His core voting tenets are as follows:
I believe in a minimalistic approach to the NNS that focuses primarily on technical improvements to the core protocol
I believe the primary responsibility of the NNS is to ensure the stability and security of the IC above all else
I will vote to improve NNS and IC accessibility, and to remove technical or economic barriers that hinder participation in the IC and the NNS
I will vote to improve developer tooling and to make the IC a cheaper, more performant, and more scalable platform in order to attract developers and make it easier to build decentralized applications
I will vote to limit censorship on the IC except in the case where the content would legally endanger the IC and/or DFINITY foundation were it to remain up (i.e. copyright infringement, illegal trafficking)
I have no plans to approve any changes to IC tokenomics
Hello everyone! I first got involved in the Internet Computer shortly after Genesis and staked my first ICP in an 8-year neuron on 23JUN21. I am the author of the ICP Analysis on Substack and am very interested in data analytics around the NNS and the ICP tokenomics. In July of 2022 I started full time employment at DFINITY.
As a 3x founder, Dan's led engineering, product, and sales teams deploy, grow, and sell Web2 and Web3 infrastructure. Currently, as the founder of Identity Labs, Dan focuses on leading the team in building the NFID platform and supporting its 100s of thousands of users and clients.
I am Sowmarler, Bio forensics graduate turned crypto enthusiast since 2018. I've been an active member of the ICP community since its Genesis, engaging in discussions about blockchain technology and its implications. I bridge complex technical concepts with practical applications, contributing to the ongoing dialogue in the ICP and crypto space.
Weed is a data-sovereignty and privacy maximalist. In cryptography since 2007, and blockchain since 2010, when he recognized cryptography can offer mathematically sound privacy for all sentient beings. Since then, Weed has been focused on how to secure our most precious asset, data. Joined the Internet Computer ecosystem at Genesis. Was one of the very first members of ICPMN and was one of the very first ICPMN Ambassadors. Data belongs to the creator: not the engineers of the technology, nor governments. Web3 is about owning your own data, and self-managing your data! Weed will vote to keep the Internet Computer allowing for infinitely scalable sovereign data storage and computation. Weed is Director, Cyber Security & Systems Architecture at MindBank.ai.
Computer Science undergrad, hobbyist game dev and 8 Year Gang member, I've been a crypto enthusiast since 2016 and became actively involved with the Internet Computer shortly after Genesis. The vision, tech and team behind it made me fell in love with the project, since then I invested a lot of time (and money) on it, initially learning more about its inner workings then interacting with the community and as of recently starting an IC association in my university, it is my belief the Internet Computer is a diamond in the rough and I want to do my best to make it shine.
David is a web developer contracting for the DFINITY Foundation and building Juno.