Dr. Lucas Lu (C.E.O.), an e-commerce veteran and serial entrepreneur, founded the 5miles marketplace in 2014. Previously a co-founder and C.T.O. of LightInTheBox, which went public in 2013 on the N.Y.S.E., Dr. Lu also was the first general manager of Alibaba’s Taobao Mobile platform.

Dr. Michael Yuan (Chief Scientist), a noted author of several books on software development, was an active code committer in large open source projects such as Fedora, Firefox, and JBoss. Dr. Yuan is an expert on enterprise and mobile software and was a principle investigator on U.S. government-funded research projects.

Timothy McCallum (Core Developer), a specialist in FinTech programming and blockchain implementation for business, was named an AMP Tomorrow Maker in 2015. A celebrated mentor of the Google Summer of Code, Timothy was a special guest of Google in 2014, collaborating with software developers from around the world and on finance data migration for local government.

Alex Lau (Core Developer), whose nickname online is AvengerMoJo, is a blockchain consultant for WeBank and 5miles. A former C.T.O. of Symbio Mobile, Alex has worked at Nortel Network in the U.S. and as an R&D manager at SUSE Linux in China and Taiwan, where he became a ceph distributed filesystem expert.

Robert Li (C.T.O.), whose background includes broad technical and managerial experience in e-commerce, joined The CyberMiles Foundation after successful stints as lead engineer at eBay, senior R&D manager at eBay’s China Development Center, and at Google in Shanghai.

Dr. Marc Fleury (Advisor), a pioneer in software freedom and the business of decentralization, created JBoss, an open-source Java application server. Formerly an E.V.P. of Red Hat Inc., Dr. Fleury also is an early thought leader and investor in cryptocurrencies.

You can learn more about the entire CyberMiles team at cybermiles.io/team.