Nebulas was founded in June of 2017 and at that time, the initial Nebulas Foundation was established from the founding team. As Nebulas enters the “Autonomous Metanet,” the Nebulas team along with community participants establish the “Three Nebulas Committees.” As one of the three committees, the Nebulas Foundation will manage resources and utilize capital to provide efficiency for the development of the Nebulas ecosystem.

The election of the first president of the Nebulas Foundation was completed on April 24th, 2019. During this election, Hitters Xu was elected as the chairman of the Nebulas Foundation.

The 11 members of the first Nebulas Foundation has been appointed by the chairman of the foundation; four of them are currently appointed as executive directors of the Nebulas foundation and will serve a one year term.

They include:

Ruby Wu, Secretary General of the Foundation:

Former Nebula Ecological Development Director and Head of Public Chain Technology Alliance. She has worked in the Investment Banking Department of China International Capital Corporation and the Capital Markets Department of Standard Chartered Bank. Waseda University, Bachelor of Arts from the National University of Singapore and Master of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Becky Lu, Executive Director of the Foundation:

Former Nebulas Strategy Director. 8 years of advertising and digital marketing experience and 5 years of big data analysis experience. Former Market Manager (China’s largest local life information portal). Master of Science in Money, Banking and Financial Economics, University of Sheffield.

Samuel Chen, executive director of the Foundation:

The chief architect of Nebulas is responsible for the development of important core infrastructure and platforms such as the main network and virtual machines. Postdoctoral degree at the University of California, San Diego, Ph.D. in Computer Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests include advanced compilation techniques, parallel program analysis, program verification, and high-performance system reliability. He has published many academic papers at high-level academic conferences and has several patents and software copyrights in related fields. Former Whova project manager and engineering team leader. Emerging technology enthusiasts.

Tang Zaiyang (Tang), executive director of the Foundation:

Senior researcher at Nebulas. Ph.D. in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, visiting scholar at Aizu University in Japan and National Telecommunications Institute in Paris, France. His research interests include distributed systems, wireless networks and blockchain consensus. He has published papers in journal conferences such as TPDS and ICDCS.