Feng Hou

Feng Hou

Co-Founder & CEO

WHITE FISH, LLC.

Feng Hou is the Co-Founder and CEO of White Fish, LLC., which is the creator of the revolutionary blockchain platform service Pistis.io. He also serves as the Chief Digital Transformation Evangelist at Maryville University in St. Louis and teaches a graduate level course Blockchain for Data Science. Recently, he has been re-elected as the Chairman for the (Blockchain) Education Architecture Special Interest Group (EASIG) under the Linux Foundation. As an award winning CIO, Hou has more than 20 years of digital transformation and executive leadership experience. He has led several successful blockchain initiatives in higher education. Based on these experiences, Hou has co-founded Pistis.io to focus on: 1. Provide blockchain services for both education institutions and individual learners; 2. Make blockchain easy to use; and 3. Create an interoperable blockchain platform for learners to integrate records from other sources and blockchain services to build their lifelong learning profile. To achieve this goal, Hou has led the Pistis.io to have created many innovative blockchain services including: - Lifelong Learning Profile, - TranscriptPlus, - A customizable digital wallet, - Issuance API, - Blockchain as a service (BaaS), - Universal student ID, and - P-Chain, etc. At the same time, Hou has devoted his effort to supporting blockchain education. Pistis.io is now offering free blockchain sandboxes to education institutions for their students to practice designing and issuing learning credentials, and developing smart contracts on Pistis sandboxes. Hou is also a nationally sought after speaker. Hou has recently keynoted at Blockchain in Education Conference in Washington DC and Interface - St. Louis 2019. He is a national leader for blockchain adoption in education, and a strong advocate for education leaders to 1. Educate themselves about the transformative impact of blockchain on education, and 2. Collaborate to create better education ecosystems to support learners with their lifelong learning needs.