Dr. Sam Seo is the Chairman of Kaia DLT Foundation, a non-profit organization that was established to accelerate global adoption and ecosystem maturity of the Kaia blockchain. Prior to the chain merge, Dr. Seo was the Representative Director of Klaytn Foundation, where he led the non-profit as it worked towards its goal of expanding the Klaytn ecosystem beyond South Korea. Dr. Seo’s involvement with Klaytn spans further back in his career, where he was Chief Klaytn Officer (CKO) at Krust Universe. There, he led the development and operation of the Klaytn blockchain. He also worked as CTO at GroundX, a blockchain subsidiary of the leading South Korean mobile platform, Kakao, and as an assistant computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science and engineering as well as a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Seoul National University. He has authored numerous papers on parallel programming and high-performance computing. His technical interests include blockchains, high-performance computing, parallel programming models, compilers, and runtime systems.