Frank H. McCourt, Jr. is the executive chairman of McCourt Global, a private family enterprise working across the real estate, sports, technology, media and capital investment industries. He is the founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty, a broad-based effort to build a better web for a better world. The project includes the development of an open internet protocol, the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol, which shifts data rights from platforms to people, and an institute — launched with founding partners Georgetown University, Stanford University and Sciences Po — to advance research and develop a governance framework for the internet’s next era.

Michael J. Casey is chief content officer at the award-winning media company CoinDesk, host of the Money Reimagined podcast, and the Chairman of the Consensus conference. He has worked as a journalist on five continents, including eighteen years with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, and was a founding staffer at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. Casey’s previous books include The Age of Cryptocurrency, The Social Organism and The Truth Machine.