SIG Members

Name	Brief Bio

Andrea Frosinini	Andrea gained a long-term experience in multinational environments, having the chance to carry out my managerial activity in the field of Export & Trade Finance. My task was to match different, often divergent, requests, assess each aspect of an operation in order to deliver simple solutions for complex problems, minimizing risks and enhancing profitability. I supported the sales network by introducing relevant, tailor-made innovations to the existing contractual offer and increased the awareness of the sales force through streamlined and effective procedures. In a specific case, such innovations led to a growth of 25% in orders from critical areas, although of great interest, such as South America, Africa and South-East Asia, rising the turnover back to satisfactory levels, after years of standstill. In recent years I got massively involved in blockchain and DLT and became the Chairperson of Hyperledger Trade Finance SIG, where I leveraged on my Trade Finance expertise for developing projects, with a special focus in Europe, Africa, Middle East and APAC region.
Tom Klein	Tom has over 35 years of industry experience in building teams, developing creative solutions, and driving operational excellence. Over his career he has led the adoption of many different technologies across the spectrum of industries. Tom is the founder of BusinessBlock, LLC which focuses on applying blockchain to solve enterprise problems, especially where there is a benefit to the Triple Bottom Line of People, Planet, and Profit. He has a special interest in Social Impact use cases where he has been working to understand the career needs of non-college oriented youth and employer desires to extend talent development beyond their professional workforce. Tom worked the majority of his career at IBM where he held roles in product development and sales. In management, Tom led teams locally, for North America, and Worldwide; and for software product sets such as software application development, Big Data, data management, data protection, and application infrastructure. He and his teams successfully applied newer technologies in interoperability, Web 2.0, Big Data, process management, and agile software development methods. He is a Co-Chair of the Hyperledger Supply Chain & Trade Finance Special Interest Group. He also is an active participant in the IEEE P2145 standards group working to create a blockchain governance standard. The group aims to use this standard as a catalyst to speed up the adoption of blockchain based ecosystems.
Alicia Noel	Consulting with organizations around the world that are developing agriculture and food-related platforms which use blockchain, with a focus on supply chain traceability.
Erik Valiquette	Erik is the co-founder and president of the Canadian Blockchain Supply Chain Association. Through their core services of Advocacy, Collaboration and Education, they bring together like-minded professionals who want to explore Blockchain in their supply chain. The member-driven association's goal is to accelerate the adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology through dialog, to help shape policy with governmental agencies for improved services, and to help the community's voice to be heard. With a 30 year career in logistics, he’s passionate about bridging the gap between technology and business needs and is a firm believer that Blockchain has the potential to bring global supply chain management to the next level by reducing waste. Erik is based in Montreal, Canada.
Jeff Pribich	Employed(past tense) for decades by one of the largest industrial firms in the world operating in 89 countries. This provided a global view on the use of blockchain and non-blockchain solutions needed to meet corporate objectives. Produced IT architecture solution designs for immediate implementation and in addition, comparison with market leading solution offerings for Artificial intelligence(AI), Blockchain(permissioned) and data analytic solutions. Also worked on development teams in Ethereum smart contracts(Solidity). Strategy development and review for development of a revolutionary platform to level the playing field for producers, buyers, storage operators, lenders and all other participants on the global agricultural supply chain. The strategy and economics for a solution resulting in deployment of a permissionless blockchain with IoT-driven technology to verify and auto-execute smart contracts creating a fully automated and digitized workflows at every stage. This platform provides a central, single point of truth that brings all participants on the supply chain together with transparency, efficiency and reliability of data.