Rich Widmann is the Global Head of Strategy for Web3 at Google Cloud and a founding member of Google's Web3 business. Google Cloud Web3 partners with some of the ecosystems most successful protocols to drive developer adoption leveraging crypto-native tools and services. Rich first entered the cryptocurrency space in 2016 as a regulatory enforcement defense lawyer. He serves as a board member of a national bank and is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern Pritzker University School of Law where he teaches courses on cryptocurrency technology and regulations.