Jamsheed Shorish is CEO and founder of Shorish Research in Belgium, providing computational business services to startups, SMEs and enterprises. He received his Ph.D. from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing upon mathematical and computational modeling, is an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University and an affiliated researcher with the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He’s taught extensively on subjects such as game theory, mechanism design and mathematical optimization, and his current focus is on the digital economy and platforms, and on the foundations and analysis of distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain.