Arthur Breitman

Arthur Breitman is a Council Member at the Tezos Foundation, a position he has held since February 2021, where he supports the promotion and development of the Tezos protocol and related technologies through grants, investments, and sponsorships. He co-founded Tezos alongside his wife Kathleen Breitman, and the project launched as a proof-of-stake blockchain designed to address governance and scalability limitations in earlier blockchain platforms. He also serves as Director at Trilitech, a London-based team dedicated to developing and elevating ideas built on the Tezos blockchain, and as an Advisor at Nomadic Labs, a role he has held since February 2018. In January 2024, he founded AGITProp, a software development company headquartered in London. Prior to these roles, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Dynamic Ledger Solutions from April 2016 to December 2020, the entity through which Tezos was originally developed.

Before entering the blockchain space, Breitman worked as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs and as a vice president at Morgan Stanley. He also worked as a research engineer at Google and Waymo. His academic background includes a degree in applied mathematics and computer science from the École Polytechnique in France, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. At age 18, he won a bronze medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics representing France.