Joe Lubin is a Canadian entrepreneur and blockchain pioneer. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Ethereum, a decentralized platform that enables the creation of decentralized applications (dApps), and as the founder and CEO of ConsenSys.

Education

Joe Lubin earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, specializing in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, from Princeton University. He attended the university from 1982 to 1987, where he focused on the technical and theoretical aspects of electrical engineering and computer science. ^[1]

Career

Joe Lubin is the Founder and CEO of ConsenSys, a global blockchain technology company established in October 2014. Based in the Greater New York City Area, ConsenSys focuses on building infrastructure, applications, and practices for a decentralized world. The company acts as a venture production studio and blockchain software development consultancy, primarily working within the Ethereum ecosystem. ConsenSys develops decentralized applications (DApps), enterprise solutions, and developer tools while coordinating and supporting various ventures. ^[2]

Before his work in blockchain, Lubin served as the CEO of SyNerG Music from January 2012 to June 2014 in Jamaica. From 2001 to 2003, he was the Director of the New York office of Blacksmith Technologies. Earlier, he worked at Goldman Sachs as VP of Technology in the Private Wealth Management Division from 1999 to 2001. ^[2]

Lubin's career also includes roles in research and engineering. From 1995 to 1998, he worked at TOMANDANDY in Manhattan, NY, focusing on automated music composition and artificial neural networks. He was a research scientist and software engineer at Vision Applications Inc. from 1992 to 1995, where he worked on machine vision, autonomous mobile robotics, DSP programming, custom hardware, and power systems. ^[2]

Lubin began his career at Princeton University, managing the Robotics and Expert Systems Laboratory from 1987 to 1992. There, he worked on machine vision, artificial neural networks, autonomous road vehicles, 3D graphics, and robotics. ^[2]

Ethereum

At the Bitcoin Miami conference in 2014, Vitalik Buterin presented his concept for executable smart contracts. Joseph Lubin, the Founder of Consensys, recognized its potential and began laying the groundwork for Ethereum, the largest smart contract blockchain. Lubin collaborated with global developer teams to contribute to the Ethereum protocol between 2013 and 2015, shaping its foundational principles and technical architecture. ^[3]