Phil Gomes

Phil leads communications and marketing across Bloq’s corporate brand, its core product suite, and the projects affiliated with BloqLabs. Prior to joining Bloq in 2018, Phil was a senior vice president at the Edelman PR firm and the leader of its global blockchain center-of-excellence. There, he guided the world’s largest communications firm’s initial explorations across two generational technology shifts: social media and blockchain.

In his near-decade in Silicon Valley prior to Edelman, his work helped guide clients to win the Technology Pioneers Programme Award at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Twice. Known for PR 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).