Ingo Rübe is founder of KILT Protocol and CEO of B.T.E. BOTLabs Trusted Entity GmbH (BTE), a subsidiary of BOTLabs GmbH, the initial developer of KILT. Earlier he served as CTO of Hubert Burda Media, where he initiated and headed the Drupal-based CMS Thunder; previously he was IT Project Director at Axel Springer. Ingo and BOTLabs is a founding member of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA) and the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF), and he also served on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association.