Dr. Steven “Seven” Waterhouse is the CEO and co-founder of Orchid Labs. Orchid Labs is building a fully distributed market for bandwidth, storage, and computation on top of a programmable network protocol, allowing developers to create distributed applications. Waterhouse is an investor and experienced blockchain entrepreneur who most recently served as a partner at Pantera Capital focusing on blockchain ventures. He was also a co-founder and CTO of RPX, as well as the director and founder of the Honeycomb product group at Sun Microsystems. He holds a doctorate in engineering from Cambridge with a focus in speech recognition and machine learning.