Provenance Blockchain Foundation appoints Ira Miller as Vice President of Engineering
Engineer veteran with previous senior roles at Figur and SRI
International brings significant Blockchain Engineering expertise to
Provenance Blockchain Foundation
SAN FRANCISCO, 20 September 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Provenance Blockchain Foundation, an organization focused on enabling financial services firms to rethink how their businesses operate, is pleased to welcome Ira Miller as vice president for engineering. In this role, Miller will continue to build the highest-quality, inclusive engineering organization that supports Provenance’s technical ecosystem, including security, operational resiliency, scalability, interoperability, user interface and user experience.
Miller joins the Provenance Blockchain Foundation after most recently serving as director of engineering at Figure, where he led the engineering team that developed Provenance Blockchain’s protocol.
Prior to his time at Figure, Miller spent several years in senior software engineering roles at SRI International, working on a wide range of projects spanning security, distributed system architecture, software engineering methodology, and was also responsible for hiring, management and mentoring.
“Ira is a first-class engineer and manager,” said Morgan McKenney, CEO of the Provenance Blockchain Foundation. “His expertise – particularly in the financial services and blockchain areas – makes him an obvious choice to lead our engineering organization. As the leading blockchain solution for financial services, we welcome Ira’s leadership as we continue to pioneer services and capabilities that deliver material. benefit to all our stakeholders including users, developers and validators to further increase the adoption of provenance blockchain.”
Provenance Blockchain delivers material efficiency across lending, mortgage, payments, private assets and capital markets for users. Leading financial institutions, fintechs and asset managers are using Provenance Blockchain to enable the entire digital asset cycle, from origination to funding, financing and trading. Provenance Blockchain successfully transforms lending, securitization, private assets, payment and exchange, and supports over 10 billion dollars in transactions.
“I am excited to work with the excellent team at the Provenance Blockchain Foundation and look forward to expanding the incredible architecture that Provenance Blockchain already provides for financial services,” said Miller. “Never have my strengths and experiences felt so fitting for such an important and innovative endeavor. We are building the future here at Provenance.”
About Provenance Blockchain Foundation
The Provenance Blockchain Foundation provides the leading ecosystem for the development and deployment of DeFi applications. The Provenance Blockchain Foundation supports the Provenance Blockchain and its participants by catalyzing adoption, education, research and development and through the HASH Grants program. We believe a community-driven, open-source model based on the best-in-class, eco-friendly Cosmos/Tendermint network of blockchains is critical to the success and broad adoption of the next generation of decentralized financial applications. Provenance Blockchain is a public blockchain network designed and developed to support the needs of the financial industry by providing a ledger, registry and exchange across multiple financial assets and markets. To learn more, visit
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