Phil Gomes

I'm a unique chimera of communicator, marketer open-source advocate, senior counselor, MBA, pylocatabasist, intrapreneur, online crisis HALO jumper, technology buff, blockchain explorer, communications futurist, and cachaça connoisseur.

Only about half of those characteristics are professional qualifications, but I do hope the rest make me a more interesting fellow to have around.

I am the head of marketing at Fedi, where we scale freedom with an app that combines bitcoin, chat, privacy, community, and more.

Previously, I worked with Web3 startup factory Bloq, launching multiple brands in infrastructure, mining, DeFi, and more.

Prior to that, I guided Edelman's initial explorations for two fundamental technology shifts: social media and blockchain. In the meantime, I ran a world-class employee development program, built a well-regarded certification system, managed a fair number of online crises, wrote global online behavior policies, tried to fix PR's relationship with Wikipedia, and focused on anticipating the unexpected in a trade that values predictability more than it would like to admit.

I was nearly a decade in Silicon Valley before all of that, where I worked with startups and enterprise companies alike. I helped clients to win the Technology Pioneers Programme Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Twice.

I'm also widely considered to be the first PR professional to start a blog (2001) and the first to describe and demonstrate the value of blockchain technology in communications (2015).

The rest of the time, I read more than the average retina is designed to handle, and listen to more heavy metal and jazz than is generally considered healthy or advisable.