Adi Ben-Ari is the co-founder of Applied Blockchain and has 20+ years experience as architect, designer, developer and development/project manager for blue chip companies and more recently start-ups. He has extensive experience in Telecoms sector with Vodafone, T-Mobile, Carphone Warehouse, Nextel, Verizon, KPN, UPC, O2, and Amdocs as well as experience in financial services experience at Lloyd's Insurance Market and Lloyds Banking Group. Ben Ari has co-invented, designed, and registered a patent in the mobile payments space and his specialties are Analytics, Big Data, Machine Learning, Behaviour Profiling, Hadoop, and Enterprise Integration. He has an MBA from Tel Aviv University and B.Sc., Computer Science from Bristol University.