Fabrice Rochette
Co-founder & CEO
Entrepreneur and visionary technologist. Co-inventor of Verifiable Trust. Principal author of the Verana specifications. Lead of product and ecosystem strategy. Also Co-founder and CEO of the Verana Foundation.
Team
The People Building This
We are spec authors, protocol maintainers, and product operators who work together because the problem is large and the window is narrow. This page is the honest introduction.
Origin
A Ten-Year Bet, Made Public in 2024
The work that became 2060 started at the Internet Identity Workshop. Over successive IIW sessions, the team developed the thesis that would become Verifiable Trust: that identity, authority, and accountability for services and AI agents should be resolvable in real time against neutral, public registries, not negotiated bilaterally per integration.
That thesis produced
- Specifications. The Verifiable Trust and VPR specifications, drafted between 2021 and 2024, now at v4.
- A protocol. Verana, whose reference implementation 2060 seeded and whose Foundation 2060 co-founded in 2024.
- A product line. Hologram, our commercial stack, in market since 2025 and now on the App Store, Google Play, and Huawei AppGallery.
- An ecosystem. A Council of 15+ independent organizations across sectors and jurisdictions, each with one vote on the protocol's direction.
2060 does not own the ecosystem. 2060 invented the category it sits in.
Founders
Founders
Ariel Gentile
Co-founder & CTO
Electronic engineer and open-source leader. Maintainer of VS Agent and the Hologram App. Long-time contributor to Credo-TS. Co-founder and CTO of the Verana Foundation.
Core team
Core Team
Beyond the founders, 2060's core team is 5 people across product and engineering, distributed across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Every engineer on the core team has shipped production code on at least one of our three tracks: the Hologram stack, the Verana reference implementation, or the Verifiable Trust / VPR specifications.
We hire rarely. When we do, we hire on craft.
Product
Gerard William Burion
Chief Product Officer
25+ years across mobile, media, payments, and fintech in the Paris tech ecosystem (including Treezor, Europe's banking-as-a-service platform). Owns product direction for the Hologram stack and the path to Hologram Cloud GA.
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Pratik Kumar
Senior Blockchain Developer
Lead contributor on the Verana chain (Cosmos SDK / Go): permissioning modules, fee and trust-deposit logic, TypeScript client harness.
Tarun Vadde
Software Developer
Self-sovereign-identity specialist. TypeScript, NestJS, Solidity, Hyperledger Aries / Indy. Works on VS Agent, credential-handling flows, and the Hologram App's verifiable-credential wallet.
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Andrés Felipe Vallecilla Puentes
Full-Stack Developer
Full-stack engineer contributing across the Hologram stack and Verana reference implementations. Based in Bogotá.
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Advisors
Advisors
Philip A. Bildner
Strategic Advisor
10+ years across law, compliance, tax, audit, and finance in the blockchain and sports sectors. Prior roles at Pantera Capital, Proskauer Rose LLP, and the NFL. Currently strategy-and-operations at Autonomous; advises Caribbean high-net-worth capital on blockchain and U.S. real-estate investments. Member of the State Bar of California. Harvard JD; UC Berkeley BA (summa cum laude).
David Rennie
Strategic Advisor
London-based digital-identity and payments specialist with 18+ years of work on UK identity infrastructure. Individual Expert Member at the Digital Pound Foundation, leading its Privacy and Identity Working Group. Prior work across the UK Identity Card Programme, the James Crosby review of identity assurance, the Privacy and Consumer Advisory Group, the Open Identity Exchange, and GOV.UK Verify.
Ecosystem
Where We Sit in the Ecosystem
These seats are not promotional. They reflect where our people do the technical work.
- Verana Foundation: founding member, Council seat (one of 15+), validator operator, lead editor of the Verifiable Trust and VPR specifications.
- OpenWallet Foundation: active contributor on Credo-ts and wallet interoperability.
- Trust Over IP (ToIP): participant in governance and trust-registry working groups.
- Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF): contributor on DID methods and credential formats.
- Internet Identity Workshop (IIW): regular presenters and session conveners since 2020.
Values
How We Work
- Open by default
- Code, specs, governance. If it can be public, it is.
- Neutral where it matters
- We author standards. We contribute to foundations. We do not privatize the commons our work depends on.
- Long-term over loud
- Ten-year bets, not twelve-month cycles.
- Craft over headcount
- We hire for depth, not scale.
- Standards-led, product-proven
- Specifications first. Reference implementations next. Commercial products last. In that order, on purpose.
Hiring
Send Work, Not Résumés
We hire rarely and slowly. If you are a protocol engineer, cryptographer, standards editor, or full-stack developer with a track record of shipping open-source code in identity or agentic AI, we would rather hear from you than not.
