About SwirldsSwirlds is a software platform designed to build fully-distributed applications that harness the power of the cloud without servers. Now you can develop applications with fairness in decision making, speed, trust and reliability, at a fraction of the cost of traditional server-based platforms.Swirlds Inc.SI5_1a5fc0ec-bc06-11e7-bb1d-40b29942c8d9Leemon BairdCo-founder & CTO -- Leemon Baird is the inventor of the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, and is the Co-founder and CTO of Swirlds Inc. With over 20 years of technology and startup experience, he has held positions as a Professor of Computer Science at the Air Force Academy and as a senior scientist in several labs. He has been the co-founder of several startups, including two identity-related starts ups, which were acquired. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and has multiple patents and publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in computer security, machine learning, and mathematics.Mance HarmonCo-founder & CEO -- Mance Harmon is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur with more than 20 years of strategic leadership experience in multi-national corporations, government agencies and high-tech startups, and is Co-founder and CEO of Swirlds Inc. 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 organization, Program Manager for a very-large scale software program for the Missile Defense Agency, the Course Director for Cybersecurity at US Air Force Academy, and research scientist in Machine Learning at Wright Laboratory. Mance received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, and a BS in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.Swirlds Inc. Investors & PartnersPV VenturesPV Ventures is a venture capital firm that makes investments in seed stage technology companies. PV Ventures’ goal is to partner with great teams to build their compelling ideas into successful businesses. www.pvventuresllc.comPing IdentityPing Identity is both an investor and partner to Swirlds Inc.. Ping has developed a preview of a Distributed Session Management (DSM) system built on the Swirlds hashgraph platform. DSM reduces corporate risk by giving IT organizations the ability to globally sign off users from their web, SaaS and native applications. www.pingidentity.comDevelopersThe Swirlds platform enables developers to create both permissioned and permissionless distributed applications with high transaction throughput, low consensus latency, and fairness in transaction order, without the burdensome costs of Proof-of-Work. Some of the application categories include: * Markets * Identity * Gaming * Cryptocurrency * Online Collaboration * Public LedgerTrust on the Internet._1a5fc24a-bc06-11e7-bb1d-40b29942c8d9To enable creation of distributed applications with unlimited scope and scale._1a5fc376-bc06-11e7-bb1d-40b29942c8d9SecurityMaintain private and secure data, without having to trust the privacy and integrity of any central server.ReliabilityDeliver applications that are always available; as reliable as the internet.FairnessEnsure the actual order of transactions is the consensus order, and all transactions are included.TrustEnforce rules, achieve fairness and ensure safety in a highly trusted system.SpeedSpeed time-to-consensus with more transactions per second.Cost-EffectivenessBuild high-throughput, scalable applications without incurring server costs and maintenance.ApplicationsBuild trusted applications that are always available, without the use of central servers._1a5fc42a-bc06-11e7-bb1d-40b29942c8d9Leveraging the hashgraph distributed consensus algorithm, developers can build trusted applications that are always available, without the use of central servers._1a5fc4de-bc06-11e7-bb1d-40b29942c8d92017-10-28http://www.swirlds.com/about/OwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net