The Zcash Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit focused on financial privacy. [Our mission](mission) is to build privacy infrastructure for the public good, and we primarily serve users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain.
- [_Andrew Miller_](https://soc1024.com/) (Chair, President) • Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an associate director of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts.
- [_Peter Van Valkenburgh_](http://www.petervv.com/) (Secretary) • Director of Research at Coin Center, a nonprofit organization focused on research, education, and advocacy on the intersection of policy and cryptocurrencies.
- [_Matthew Green_](https://isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/) • Associate Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, and one of the authors of the original Zerocash research paper.
- [_Amber Baldet_](http://www.amberbaldet.com/) • CEO of Clovyr, former JPMorgan Blockchain Program Lead, and co-creator of a zero-knowledge settlement layer for enterprise Ethereum.
- [_Ian Miers_](https://cs.jhu.edu/~imiers/) • Postdoc studying computer security and applied cryptography at Cornell Tech, and one of the creators of Zcash.
Former members:
- [_Naval Ravikant_](https://angel.co/naval) • Founder and CEO of AngelList, and one of the venture capital investors behind Zcash.
- [_Yan Zhu_](https://diracdeltas.github.io/) • Senior Software Engineer at Brave and security researcher.
## Employees
- [_Josh Cincinnati_](https://twitter.com/acityinohio) • Executive Director of the Foundation, and an active member of the cryptocurrency community.
- [_Antonie Hodge_](https://twitter.com/antoniehodge) • Operations Director of the Zcash Foundation. Also serves as Operations Director at Coin Center.
- [_Sonya Mann_](https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann) • Communications Manager for the Foundation and a former tech journalist.
