Rod Alexander

Director of Media Relations at leading blockchain engineering company, IOHK, Rod Alexander has worked in media, communications and technology for 30 years. Rod founded and built a successful software company, operating across multiple global territories, has led media relations for cutting-edge technology companies across immunology, fintech, satellite applications, low carbon vehicles, aerospace, robotics and has worked with numerous governments and companies to facilitate international trade partnerships. IOHK has developed the world’s first demonstrably secure Proof of Stake blockchain protocol, having undertaken almost 5 years of academically -led R&D. The company has written dozens of academic papers, with around half of them now peer-reviewed at the world’s leading conferences. A company with a strong focus on the developing world and the potential their blockchain technologies have to help people in those countries to solve some of their most challenging problems, IOHK is committed to achieving financial inclusion for the 3bn people around the world who are currently denied that right.

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