Phil Gomes

Summary

With enterprise experience and startup savvy in equal measure, Phil Gomes is a trusted marcomm leader, strategist, advocate, and mentor. Phil leads communications and marketing for Hemi Labs, an innovator in bringing the disparate worlds of Bitcoin and Ethereum together. Hemi spun off from early blockchain software company Bloq, where Phil not only oversaw the company’s corporate brand but also advised and/or led marketing and communications efforts for the company’s diverse spinoffs in decentralized finance, Bitcoin mining, infrastructure, gaming, and more. Among other accomplishments, he led the launch Vesper Finance, which grew into a $1.8 billion protocol at its height, and repositioned Bloq in under 40 days in response to the economic environment of 2020. Prior to joining Bloq, Phil was a senior vice president at Edelman, where he guided the world's largest communications firm's initial explorations across two generational technology shifts: social media and blockchain technology. He also advised clients on crisis communications, issues management, digital integration, and employee engagement across all of the firm’s industries and practices. During his time in Silicon Valley, Phil worked with startups and world-class companies, most notably the renowned research firm SRI International. Known for industry “firsts,” Phil is widely considered to be the first PR professional to start a blog (2001) and the first to describe and demonstrate the value of blockchain technology in communications (2015).