James Worthington joins Omnitude as CTO

Respected Hyperledger innovator and evangelist officially joins Omnitude as Chief Technology Officer to drive forward their exciting vision for Blockchain.

James Worthington

15/05/18 — Consensus2018, New York — Omnitude, a revolutionary blockchain platform for enterprise and eCommerce, is pleased to announce the appointment of James Worthington as Chief Technology Officer. Omnitude has recently partnered with Williams Martini Racing to bring blockchain technology to Formula One racing and James will lead the technical roll out of this exciting project. He’s already played a pivotal role in building Omnitude’s Proof Of Concept, launched on the 28th March 2018.

One of four co-chairs of the Hyperledger Healthcare Working Group and a member of the Hyperledger Performance and Scaling Working Group, he’s been involved with the Hyperledger Foundation since the announcement of their project, being a key evangelist for the blockchain technology.

“James bring extensive large scale enterprise data experience and expertise with the Hyperledger Foundation and the various frameworks and projects under the Hyperledger umbrella, specifically Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Indy, to Omnitude. For this we are incredibly pleased to have him on board influencing and implementing our product roadmap”, said Chris Painter, CEO and Founder of Omnitude.

James has held a variety of internal, external, and independent business and technical positions throughout his career, particularly in the healthcare and IT consulting sectors. His strong functional, financial, operational, and technical background and capabilities have helped to deliver data solutions and provide exceptional business value to a diverse portfolio of startups and Fortune 500 companies spanning many verticals, including healthcare, media, software, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, food services, energy, and apparel. He is now using those skills as CTO for Omnitude, a full service Hyperledger blockchain solution provider.

‘I am extremely excited about joining the Omnitude team and the opportunity to contribute to Omnitude’s Multi-Enterprise Blockchain Middleware Platform. No other Business Blockchain organization has the broad vision and experienced team as Omnitude does, and I am honoured to be asked to participate. Stay tuned for the future,” says James.