About the EOS Network Foundation

The EOS Network Foundation is a force for positive global change, charting a coordinated future for the EOS Network through decentralization and community.

The Future of Consensus is Here

Our Vision

We are building a decentralized future that doesn't sacrifice community, coordination, cooperation, and consensus, facilitating unprecedented innovation by uniting and empowering developers around the world.

Our Mission

We lead from a birds-eye-view of the EOS Network, identifying the most fruitful opportunities for investment, seed funding, and collaboration, to create positive feedback loops that fuel further innovation.

Our Story

Foundation was forged through a vision for a prosperous future of the EOS Network. Beyond its role in facilitating and elevating the prosperity of the EOS Network, the formation of the EOS Network Foundation marks a fresh start for the EOS Network.

The stewardship of the ENF is decided by the EOS Network’s on-going consensus competition, and once stewardship has been settled, the ENF drives the Network towards a bigger, better, and brighter future, through the attraction of new talent and groundbreaking projects.

Meet Our Leadership Team

Yves La Rose

Founder and CEO

Bart Wyatt

Chief Technology Officer

Patty Fisher

Chief Marketing Officer

Ted Cahall

Chief Operating Officer

Zack Gall

Co-Founder and CCO

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Our team is always growing, as we look for fresh and driven talent, and even connect developers with new opportunities.

Meet Our Founder Yves La Rose

Yves La Rose is the Executive Director and Founder of the EOS Network Foundation (ENF). A consummate consensus builder within the EOS ecosystem, he lives and breathes EOS, working to ensure the success of the network.

At a young age, Yves was attracted to technology. Through the experience of building his first computer and writing his first program at the age of seven, a lifelong interest in the potential of technology was born.

After completing studies in psychology at the University of Ottawa, Yves moved to Japan where he began his professional career in business and education.

With an entrepreneurial and inquisitive nature, six years passed, living and working while steeped in Japanese language and culture. At the same time, his early intrigue with technology was being further amplified by the revelations of Bitcoin. In 2010, he began mining Bitcoin on his laptop, and exploring the potential of decentralized networks.

Returning to Ottawa in 2011, Yves resumed his university education in pure sciences, focusing on perceptual and computational neuropsychology, and additional studies in behavioral economics.

In 2017, with additional years of business planning and analysis experience, Yves began seriously considering an endeavor in the emerging blockchain industry. Along with a handful of interested associates, he formed a blockchain book club, and having made a thorough survey of second and third generation blockchains, they began focusing their attention on the promising open source blockchain platform, EOSIO.

In February of 2018 Yves co-founded EOS Nation and led it to become the top rated block producer on the largest and most valuable network using EOSIO, the EOS Mainnet.

For over three years as founder and CEO of EOS Nation, Yves helped navigate the company through a great deal of operational uncertainty. Running network infrastructure, providing community outreach, exploring governance models, and contemplating approaches to public goods funding. His undivided attention was on EOS.

EOSIO was at the bleeding edge of public blockchain development, but it was also a global, decentralized network that was increasingly hobbled by distant and ambiguous leadership, misallocation of capital, and misalignment of incentives. Various teams sought to create a foundation, or a worker proposal system that could fund the development of public goods for the network, but these efforts stalled, and EOS was adrift. In May of 2021 Yves resigned as CEO of EOS Nation and began to contemplate a new path forward.

Throughout his tenure as CEO of EOS Nation, Yves had formed many good relationships across the EOS Network, among BP’s in the East, West & in the global South. Yves recognized that he was uniquely positioned to coalesce the stakeholders of the EOS Network around a foundation that would work on behalf of all EOS token holders to realize the true potential of EOS. With the assurance of support from a coalition of stakeholders, Yves founded the EOS Network Foundation.

Since founding the ENF, Yves has dedicated himself with singular focus, in the spirit of a modern day samurai, to work for the benefit of the EOS public blockchain and the many stakeholders of which it is composed. Yves continues to cultivate a team at the ENF that can serve the needs of the EOS community by lifting up and empowering the community itself.

Grounded in the lived experience of Eastern thought and traditions from his time living and studying in Japan and traveling throughout Asia, Yves brings a holistic approach to unifying the global EOS community through mutual respect, and a willingness to meet others wherever they are at.