Phil Gomes

Phil Gomes

Phil Gomes is senior vice president, US of B2B Digital at Edelman, where he leads Edelman’s blockchain center-of-excellence and advises both enterprise and emerging companies on digital communications. His approach seeks shared surface area between hacker culture and corporate communications. Phil is widely considered to be the first PR professional to start a blog and the first to demonstrate blockchain technology’s potential impact in communications. He is also the communications director for the Chicago Blockchain Center, a public/private partnership. 

What will it mean when stakeholders have a consenus-based version of digital truth?

In October 2015, The Economist published its cover story about bitcoin and, more compellingly, the key technology that supports it: blockchain. (More later.)

Having spoken and written about this topic for nearly a year by this point, I...