Herb Stephens

Herb is a Co-Founder, Board Director, and the Treasurer of Democracy Earth Foundation, non-profit building protocols with smart contracts that allows decentralized governance for any kind of organization.  Democracy Earth is the creator of a Universal Basic Income token build on the Ethereum blockchain, and advocates for a global  UBI.

For the past 25 years, Herb has been a serial software entrepreneur, mostly building systems where power purposefully shifts to the user through technology. Since 2012, Herb has been focused on blockchain technology and its applications for  social enterprise.

Herb was COO and CFO of Intershop (the world’s first online catalog technology), Founder and CEO of Outcome (web service management company), and Founder and CEO of Nuehealth (a global healthcare partner and ISV). Before software, Herb held corporate finance and global systems roles at General Motors, IBM, and GE.

Born in Flint, Michigan, Herb is the second of eight children in a household where both parents were small-business entrepreneurs. He studied math and computer science at the University of Michigan and earned a bachelor’s degree in Financial Administration at Michigan State University. Herb presented on the intersection of blockchains, democracy, and artificial intelligence at Taiwan’s Connect AI and attended the Bancor-led consortium at Bretton Woods.