Daniela Barbosa is the General Manager of Blockchain and Identity at the Linux Foundation and the Executive Director of the Hyperledger Foundation. ^{[1] [2]}

Career & Experience

Daniela Barbosa has held multiple leadership roles in technology, marketing, and business development across various organizations since 1995. She began her career as an Account Manager at Advo from September 1995 to October 1999, followed by serving as Solutions Architect & Integration Services Manager at Factiva from November 1999 to January 2007. She then worked at Dow Jones as Senior Business Development & Client Solutions Lead from January 2005 to April 2012, overlapping with her role as a Member and Co-founder of Dataportability.org from November 2007 to December 2012, where she also served as Chairperson between August 2008 and December 2009. From June 2012 to August 2017, she was Vice President of Marketing & Partnerships at FirstRain. She joined The Linux Foundation in September 2017 as Vice President of Worldwide Alliances for Hyperledger, a position she held until October 2021. She then became General Manager of Blockchain and Identity and Executive Director of Hyperledger from October 2021 to September 2024, after which she assumed her current position as General Manager of Decentralized Technologies and Executive Director of LF Decentralized Trust in September 2024. ^[3]

Education

Daniela Barbosa earned a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from the School of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, completing her studies between 2000 and 2002. ^[3]

Future for Hyperledger Foundation

Daniela Barbosa has highlighted ongoing developments within the Hyperledger Foundation, noting advancements “ranging from new projects and releases to strategic new members and a growing service provider community.” She has pointed to the rising adoption of Hyperledger technologies in areas such as asset tokenization, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), trade finance, climate-related solutions, and digital identity. Barbosa has also emphasized the foundation’s involvement in the Ethereum ecosystem, stating that Hyperledger Besu “is currently running 5–10% of the Ethereum mainnet as an execution client” and is the most widely used Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) protocol for permissioned financial services applications. ^[4]