Ethereum Foundation appoints Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stanczak as co-executive directors

The Ethereum Foundation today announced that it has welcomed Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stanczak as co-executive directors. Wang has served as a researcher for seven years at the EF, while Stanczak founded Nethermind and was one of the initial team members of Flashbots.

The Ethereum Foundation disclosed that Wang’s experience as a researcher at the EF for seven years, as a contributor to the beacon chain, and as a community builder in Taiwan gave her deep insight into Ethereum’s core values. Stanczak’s experience as the founder of Nethermind, where he built a talent recruitment and training pipeline, and as one of the first team members of Flashbots also gave him the qualifications required to build a highly functional organization. 

The EF also announced that Danny Ryan was joining as a cofounder of Etherealize to help ‘onboard the world to Ethereum’. At Etherealize, Ryan said that he intended to build a new Ethereum institution with real-world Ethereum as its north star. He added that the world was ‘to come on chain’ and he was prepared ‘to do the hard work necessary to make it happen’. 

Ethereum Foundation welcomes Wang and Stanczak to Ethereum 

1/ The Ethereum Foundation is thrilled to welcome Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz Stanczak as co-Executive Directors. This new leadership structure marks an exciting new chapter in the Foundation's evolution as we continue to support a growing Ethereum ecosystem.

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— Ethereum Foundation (@ethereumfndn) March 1, 2025

According to the EF, the appointment of Wang and Stanczak will be effective as of March 17th. Wang is expected to bring in her research background, having served as a core researcher at the Ethereum Foundation for seven years. She has also worked as a key contributor to the Ethereum beacon chain and an active Ethereum community builder in Taiwan. 

The EF noted that Wang’s experience provided her with insight into Ethereum’s R&D process, grassroots community, and application developers/builders. Her experience also gives her an understanding of Ethereum’s core values and the Ethereum Foundation’s unique role within Ethereum’s decentralized ecosystem. 

The EF also disclosed that Stanczak is expected to bring his expertise as the founder of Nethermind, with the hope that he will help build the same kind of engine at the Ethereum Foundation.

“Tomasz will continue to be involved in Nethermind but is in the process of transitioning out of his CEO position.”

–Ethereum Foundation 

The EF acknowledged that the Ethereum ecosystem needed to navigate the challenging transition from being an early-stage project serving a small number of enthusiasts to being a strong, permissionless, censorship-resistant base layer of global finance and software stack. 

Under the leadership of Wang and Stanczak, EF will ensure that Ethereum advances the core values that motivate the ecosystem’s existence, such as open source, permissionless global collaboration, privacy, and security.

EF hopes to onboard the world with Ryan as co-founder of Etherealize 

The EF also welcomed Ryan as a co-founder of Etherealize, where he said he would help onboard the world to Ethereum. According to Ryan, he will work alongside Vivek Raman’s team to promote real adoption, commonsense regulation, ecosystem development, and critical R&D across L1, L2, and the application layer. 

I was asked and accepted to be a co-Executive Director (alongside Hsiao Wei) of Ethereum Foundation. Officially starting around 17th of March (pending paperwork).

Please reach out via Telegram to @tkstanczak if you think we should talk / prefer async but a call also works… https://t.co/LD7gUTCeqn

— Tomasz K. Stańczak (@tkstanczak) March 1, 2025

Ryan also said that he would serve as a bridge from Ethereum back into the real world, while Raman would serve as a bridge from the real world into Ethereum. He added that Etherealize planned to become an active player across the Ethereum sphere, working to help ensure that the ecosystem remained the most open, decentralized, and censorship-resistant platform the world had to offer.

The new co-founder of Etherealize said that the team aimed to find where to augment or extend, with many individuals and organizations already at the table waiting to build Ethereum together. He claimed that Ethereum was the only environment that promised to provide open global access, efficiency, interoperability, and composability in finance, identity, and every other aspect of digital life in a neutral and decentralized way.

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