Stefaan Vervaet is the Head of Network Growth on the Filecoin Project, a global storage network with the mission of creating a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity’s information, where he is responsible for growing the storage provider and web2 client ecosystem. He is also a leader at Protocol Labs, a research, development, and deployment institution for network protocols. Stefaan has 20+ years of product and marketing infrastructure experience in the enterprise space. He successfully helped build out multiple startups in the distributed storage and private cloud space. Today holds a masters from the University of Ghent.