Neil Wasserman, Managing Partner

Neil H. Wasserman (Ph.D.), Adjunct Prof. in Computer Science at George Washington University (GW), and Managing Director, Timewave Analytics, LLC, leads the design and implementation of healthcare applications of blockchain and other technologies.  He teaches the first course on blockchain at GW and is involved the creation of a multidisciplinary center for healthcare and blockchain in the Washington DC region. 

He and his students have developed designs for applications of blockchain technology to a wide variety of application domains including satellite tracking, land registration, trade authentication, currency stabilization, IoT device access and other areas. 

He is applying distributed ledger techniques and platform business models to challenges in patient engagement and pilot development aimed at global health challenges.  He has led workshops in blockchain use case and pilot development, guiding participants through a design process for blockchain applications to supply chain, value-based payments, identity, and access to healthcare records and data. He sees blockchain as a key accelerator for the transformation of the medical culture to serve patients through new forms of connectivity and service integration, ultimately reducing costs and improving outcomes for management of chronic disease.  

As a practice director for Unisys and lead consultant to the US Navy in the office of the NAVSEA CIO, he has been involved with IT strategic planning, enterprise architecture, systems analysis and software implementation for more than two decades. His award-winning book, From Invention to Innovation (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press) examined the foundations of innovation in telecommunications at AT&T.  He has spoken frequently on networked behaviors and complex systems at IEEE conferences and other venues.  Neil Wasserman has a PhD. from Harvard University, and an A.B. from Cornell University.

Dr. Wasserman frequently speaks at conferences and was Program Chair for the 2014 Wharton DC Innovation Summit.  He has addressed applications of behavior change models at meetings on Homeland Security and Complex Systems, and has published a book on early applications of physics to telephone transmission published by Johns Hopkins University Press, for which he received an award from the American Publishers Association.  He lives in Washington, DC, has two children, Lily and Thomas and plays music and tennis with equal enthusiasm.