Stuart Popejoy

Founder & CEO at Kadena

Stuart Popejoy is the Founder and CEO of Kadena, with years of experience in building trading systems and exchange backbones for the financial industry. He is also a seasoned musician and composer working in the NYC area. Before co-founding Kadena, Stuart led engineering in the JP Morgan Blockchain Center of Excellence, where he helped develop the open-source blockchain Juno. He is the author and lead developer of the open- source Pact programming language, for fast and safe smart contracts offering formal verification support. In the New York area, Stuart leads and collaborates in numerous acclaimed musical projects, including Sugarlife, Bassoon and Day So Far. He is an active member of the creative/new music scene, playing electric bass and keyboards. Stuart has premiered and released compositions developed using novel algorithmic techniques written in Haskell. He is also a professional recording and mastering engineer. Stuart holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, and Quartz, as well as other publications.