Dustin Byington

Dustin Byington is a Blockchain entrepreneur and the CEO of TWO12. Previously, he served as President of the Wanchain Foundation.

In 2007 Byington graduated from Columbia University in New York with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. During his time at Columbia, he was an active participant within the Varsity football and team. Byington returned to education in 2011 and completed a MBA from the University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business in 2013. During his studies at post-graduate level, he was involved in the Frankel Commercialisation Fund, a pre-seed venture capital fund.

After finishing his bachelors degree, Byington went to work for Goldman Sachs as a Crisis Management Analyst. In March 2014 he founded and became the Dean of the Bitcoin College a training organisation that sort to prepare individuals for the opportunities that cryptocurrencies were predicted to bring. By 2015 he had moved on to found Tendermint, an organisation that is seeking to build blockchain consensus and solutions for modern enterprises. At the same time he had also founded Satoshi Talent, a recruitment company that specializes in career opportunities within Blockchain companies.

In September 2017 he was appointed President of the Wanchain Foundation, where he stayed until 2018. Also in 2018, Byington became CEO of TWO12, a financial services company.