Co-Founder - ConsenSys Enterprise

Andrew comes to ConsenSys with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, Andrew worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereum.

Andrew’s role at ConsenSys is a multi-faceted approach to enterprise business development, communications, and strategy.

Mike Woster is the Chief Revenue Officer and a Founding Executive of the $65 million Linux Foundation. The Linux Foundation is host to dozens of open source projects spanning tens of thousands of community developers and over 650 corporate members across all areas of technology. The Linux Foundation takes the collaborative DNA of Linux, the largest and most successful collaboratively developed software in history, to other industries and markets and builds developer ecosystems around disruptive open source technologies.
Corporate members include IBM, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, Docker, Github, Oracle, HP, Samsung, Intel, Qualcomm, Fujitsu, NEC, Huawei, Cisco.

Mr. Woster and his team have been the engine for growth and sustainability at The Linux Foundation. He has developed a unique strategy to expand the foundation beyond the Linux kernel to become a high growth business that provides strategic advice and networking for businesses wanting to leverage open source, builds ecosystems for developers and corporations around disruptive open source technologies, and delivers open source training and certification. He maintains strong relationships with a vast network of technology thought leaders and C-suite executives at the hottest tech startups and Fortune 100s.

Mr. Woster built and operated the Collaborative Projects, Training, and IT services business units, oversaw finance and operations, and hired much of the executive team to scale the business.

Notable industry initiatives Mr. Woster helped launch include Node.js Foundation, Open Container Initiative, Cloud Native Compute Foundation, Cloud Foundary Foundation, R Consortium, OpenDaylight, AllSeen Alliance, and DroneCode Project.

Mr. Woster earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science and Honors Engineering from Texas A&M University.