Gnosis was launched under ConsenSys Inc., an Ethereum-focused software company, back in 2015. Two years later, in 2017, the project won funding and became independent. It launched its native GNO token in April the same year.
The core team is led by Martin Köppelmann (CEO and co-founder), Stefan George (CTO and co-founder) and Dr. Friederike Ernst (COO).
Gnosis CEO Martin Köppelmann is a serial entrepreneur and recognizable figure in the blockchain space. He has an IT systems engineering degree from the Hasso Plattner Institute, and helped research the economic incentive structure of various consensus mechanisms and scalability solutions.
Gnosis CTO and co-founder Stefan George is a software developer with a bachelor's degree in systems engineering from the University of Potsdam and a master's degree from the Hasso Plattner Institute. He became interested in the crypto industry back in 2013, when he served as a research intern at Sap labs. He went on to found fairlay.com (a centralized Bitcoin prediction market) and work for some Berlin-based startups. Like Köppelmann, he also helped develop various technology companies in Silicon Valley.