The Zcash Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Delaware. You can read our [detailed Mission here](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/blob/master/MISSION.md). Most of the Foundation is organized via GitHub, where you can find our [main repository](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/) and our [organization page](https://github.com/ZcashFoundation).
Andrew Miller is an 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 is the Director of Research at Coin Center, a non-profit organization focused on research, education, and advocacy on topics involving policy and cryptocurrencies.
Matthew Green is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, and one of the authors of the original Zerocash research paper.
- [_Naval Ravikant_](https://angel.co/naval)
Naval Ravikant is the founder and CEO of AngelList, and one of the venture capital investors behind Zcash.
Antonie Hodge is the Operations Director of the Zcash Foundation, and also the Operations Director of [Coin Center](https://coincenter.org/), the leading nonprofit think tank focused on policy issues facing cryptocurrencies.
