The Business-to-Business (B2B) Future of Everything | Blockchain Seminar

Monday, May 5 | Meet & Greet with Coffee and Cookies at 3:30 PM | Talk at 4:00 PM

BI 105 (Business Innovation Building)

Paul Brody, Principal & Global Blockchain Leader, Ernst & Young (EY)

About the Speaker:

Paul Brody is the Global Blockchain Leader at EY, where he oversees blockchain-related work and investments across assurance, tax, consulting, and software development worldwide. Under his leadership, EY has become a major investor in Ethereum-based tools and solutions for financial statement audits, supply chain management, emissions and carbon tracking, public sector finance, and decentralized finance (DeFi). He also serves as Chairman of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, further advancing the role of blockchain in enterprise innovation. Prior to joining EY, Paul was Vice President for the Electronics Industry at IBM, and he has held leadership roles at multiple start-ups. He began his career at McKinsey & Co., working in both Los Angeles and Seoul. Paul is the author of Ethereum for Business: A Plain-English Guide to the Use Cases that Generate Returns from Asset Management to Payments to Supply Chains. He holds a B.A. in Economics and a certificate in African Studies from Princeton University. He lives in San Francisco with his husband and two sons.

Abstract:

Blockchain is often viewed as a financial or payment system—but it is far more than that. It is poised to become the connective infrastructure that links enterprises, supply chains, payment networks, and financial systems into a single, unified ecosystem. While this transformation will take time, it is already underway. This talk will explore the emergence of this integrated ecosystem and the pivotal role blockchain will play in making it a reality.