Michael Cholod

Manyone co-founder and Chief Executive Decentralist, Peer Social Foundation Executive Director

Michael Cholod is the co-founder and Chief Executive Decentralist of Manyone and Executive Director of the Peer Social Foundation. Michael believes in technological innovation with a conscience—where the best and brightest minds can work together and build something that will have a positive impact on the world. He is a dedicated decentralist who is working with a brilliant team to develop new Internet architectures and technologies in an effort to solve some of the most pressing problems of our time. He knows the Internet has the potential to be a positive tool that could unite people—instead it is used to steal our data, divide us, and dismantle our democracies. He is committed to creating a self-sovereign identity for everyone. Michael is ready to change the world! 

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We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

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