Doug von Kohorn | Head of Product

Most recently, Doug ran product development at Thesis for a fully decentralized bridge that tokenizes BTC for use in Ethereum and broader DeFi. Think WBTC but fully private, transparent, and sovereign.

Prior to his current position, Doug von Kohorn was the co-founder and CEO of Rhombus, a blockchain technology company that securely tethers real-world data to blockchain applications. Rhombus was acquired by Chainlink.

Doug has been an entrepreneur and operator for over a decade. Before founding Rhombus, he was founder and CTO of v2 Ratings, a quantitative investment data service, sold to Xynon Inc. He has built several companies centered around finance, governance, and machine learning. He was Director of Engineering at Collective Decision Engines, a quadratic voting survey company he built with Kevin Slavin, Eric Posner, and Glen Weyl.

In addition to Rhombus and v2 Ratings, Doug has previously sold two other companies. One was a software consultancy in New York that invented an entirely new process around envisioning and building startups. The second was a job placement tool and marketplace that leveraged positive psychology to place candidates in their ideal jobs.

Doug received his B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University.