Dr. Steven Waterhouse (SEVEN) is the CEO and Co-founder of Orchid Labs. Orchid Labs is developing an open source protocol to open up the entire Internet to everyone.
From its inception in 2013 until July 2016, Steven was a partner at Pantera Capital, focused on blockchain investments. He served on the board of Bitstamp till 2016.
Steven was a Co-founder and CTO of RPX (Nasdaq: RPXC) and previously Director and founder of the Honeycomb product group at Sun Microsystems.
He holds a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge with a focus in speech recognition and machine learning. Steven is an avid waterman and loves the kelp-filled cold waters of the Pacific west coast.