Yorke is a passionate technologist with broad interests, always drawn to the next shiny object.

He earned a BS in Computer Science from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Heh as worked in industry for over 20 years, in enterprises such as Microsoft & IBM and startups in wireless, mobile, digital marketing & ecommerce.

At Goldman Sachs Investment Bank he built their first wireless internet ingress and advised bankers in wireless, telecom and media. As a young developer he saw the beginnings of client server databases, obscure languages like ada, lisp & paradox and the birth of the internet.

Blockchain piqued his interest in the summer of 2015 with the launch of Ethereum. He co founded Microsoft’s blockchain initiatives working in collaboration with the partner community and continues driving it today in his role on the Blockchain Engineering team.

An Adjunct Professor at New York University, he has taught Digital Marketing, Ecommerce and Intrapreneurship and is currently developing a course on the user centric economy.