Our Mission

Enable the next generation of infrastructure to onboard the remaining 99% into Web3

About Wivity

Wivity® creates and manages governance organizations for Web3 infrastructure projects.  Its Standards DAO™ framework combines consortium best practices with decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) mechanics to help industries implement and govern decentralized infrastructure.  Standards DAO reflects Wivity’s decades of experience in consortium operations including legal, governance, technical, and processes.  It is used by companies in industries ranging from distributed energy to the metaverse.

Our Team

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Alfred Tom has 25 years in mobile, wireless, and automotive. He has helped create multiple industry standards, the latest being MirrorLink. He has degrees from MIT, Stanford, and UCLA.

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Jörg Brakensiek received his PhD 25 years ago and has spent time at Microsoft and Nokia, where he invented the MirrorLink standard. He remains the Chief Architect of MirrorLink.

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Ed Lopez was President of HDMI Licensing LLC and Chief Legal and Administrative Officer at Silicon Image. He was also General Counsel for THX, Terayon Communications, and Resound.

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Kari Kostiainen is Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich and Coordinator of Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC). He holds a doctorate in computer science from Aalto University.