Mance Harmon
Mance Harmon is a serial entrepreneur, computer scientist and technology executive with 20 years experience working for some of the leading multinational corporations and startups in the tech industry. He is a thought leader and is the Co-founder and current CEO ofSwirlds Inc.
A successful serial entrepreneur, Mance establishedHedera Hashgraph, which has quickly grown to become a multi-billion-dollar venture aiming to be the platform for tokenising everything. The venture has raised financing from top-tier investors like Boeing HorizonX Ventures, Vestinwolf Financial Holdings, Digital Currency Group, andTata Communications.
His prior experience includes serving as the Head of Architecture and Labs at Ping Identity, Founder / CEO of two tech startups, the senior executive for product security at a $1.7B revenue organisation, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for theMissile Defence Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity atUS Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory.
Mance received a MS in Computer Science from theUniversity of Massachusetts, and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.


