Ishan Roy leads the Blockchain initiative at the Centre of Excellence for Emerging Technologies (CEET) at the Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency (TNeGA). He is currently working on the Tamil Nadu Blockchain Backbone project. His foray into blockchain began in the year 2016, at the blockchain team at ICICI Bank. This team carried out the first blockchain remittance in India. Since then he has worked as the Head of Products at HashCash Consultants where he built blockchain-enabled financial solutions for global clients. He has also mentored students and industry veterans as a blockchain trainer with Edureka. He is extremely passionate about technology and loves to keep himself abreast of new developments in the field through the community