Jon Matonis is a Founding Board Director for the Bitcoin Foundation and his career has included senior influential posts at VISA International, VeriSign, Sumitomo Bank, Tradehill, and Hushmail.

Mr. Matonis is also a columnist at Forbes Magazine, American Banker, PaymentsSource, CoinDesk, and Editor of The Monetary Future, a leading economics blog at the intersection of free banking, cryptography, and digital currency. He is a board advisor to startups in bitcoin, gaming, mobile, and prepaid. His early work on digital cash systems and financial cryptography has been published by Dow Jones and the London School of Economics.