The Ethereum Foundation has restructured its leadership model, clearly delineating management duties from board responsibilities, according to a public statement dated April 28.
Under this new structure, Hsiao-Wei Wang and Tomasz K. Stańczak have stepped up as co-executive directors. Their roles will include overseeing daily operations and guiding strategic implementation. They will be supported by additional management team members, Bastian Aue and Josh Stark, whose primary focus areas will encompass organizational strategy and effective execution of projects.
Meanwhile, the Foundation’s board of directors will concentrate on long-term strategic vision and compliance. The board comprises four members, notably Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who is tasked with offering ongoing technical insight and intellectual leadership to the Ethereum ecosystem. Aya Miyaguchi, president of the Ethereum Foundation, will continue her role, which involves shaping the foundation’s overarching strategic direction and managing key external relationships.
Patrick Storchenegger, a Swiss legal expert, will ensure compliance with all relevant Swiss non-profit regulations. Hsiao-Wei Wang will also serve on this governing board, bridging the gap between board-level policy directives and daily management activities. The board will additionally function as a “security council” committed to preserving Ethereum’s decentralized core values, with responsibility to appoint or remove executive directors as required.
In their statement, Wang and Stańczak outlined their main goals for the coming year, which include enhancing layer-1 scalability, strengthening interoperability between layer-1 and layer-2 networks, and improving Ethereum’s network usability for developers and end-users. They emphasized the importance of core principles such as censorship resistance, open-source development, privacy, and security.
Stańczak, who will hold a two-year term, is also set to actively continue his existing roles at Nethermind and a new Ethereum-focused investment fund.
This restructuring coincides with ongoing requests by some within the Ethereum community for the Foundation to extend its influence and participation more actively into sectors such as decentralized finance. However, the Foundation stated clearly it will continue to uphold its guiding role without stepping into a centralized governance position, remaining committed as a facilitator and steward of Ethereum’s broader decentralized ecosystem.
