Mance Harmon is the co-founder and CEO of Hedera Hashgraph. He is an experienced technology executive and entrepreneur who has worked in multinational corporations, government agencies, and high-tech startups, with over 20 years of strategic leadership experience.nnHe is also the co-founder and CEO of Swirlds, a former architect and research scientist at Ping Identity, and a machine learning research scientist at Wright Laboratory. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Mississippi State University.