Irene Katzela is the CTO of The Miner Network. MINER tokenizes gold mine production, providing the service of ethical gold mining and delivering 24K gold bars to its token holders while assisting in cleaning up the environmental impact and working conditions of the mining industry.
One of the few women CTOs in the blockchain field Irene brings over 30 years of experience in electrical engineering and computer science to Miner. Based in Toronto she is one of Canada’s foremost authorities on Network Management of High-Speed Integrated Networks. She has over 17 years of experience in the research and development of large scale, highspeed networks with emphasis in network management and control; emerging technologies and applications, including blockchain.
As founder of Axio4Tech, a consulting firm specializing in network management, network infrastructure, and security, her clients include North America’s largest telco providers, cable providers, large enterprises, banks, and pharmaceutical companies. Always interested in ways to use technology for a more sustainable future, prior to Axio4Tech, she founded VELOCIA, a company that developed a mobile app that rewards commuters for smart mobility choices.
Earlier in her career she founded another consulting firm, LPI SOLUTIONS that specialized in network management, network infrastructure, and security.
Irene also has a very impressive academic background including a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, where her dissertation was on Fault Diagnosis in Telecommunications Networks and a Master of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, both from the School of Arts & Sciences at Columbia University in New York, and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Columbia’s School of Engineering. Her Master's Thesis was on A Methodology of Testing in ATM-BISDN Networks by Using Structured Analysis Techniques. Her undergraduate degree came from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
Prior to her consulting career, she was a professor at the University of Toronto at their Electrical and Computer Engineering school in the Computer Science department. During her Ph.D. and short academic career as a professor, she authored over 30 scientific papers published in peered reviewed journals and conference proceedings, guest edited issues in scientific journals, and more. During her PhD she had paid internships both at Bell Labs and IBM Research. Always recruited to work on marquee projects, even as an undergrad she worked on some EU technology projects between universities and Industries in the European Union.
