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title: About the Zcash Foundation
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excerpt: "The Zcash Foundation's purpose, mission, and team members."
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The Zcash Foundation is a nonprofit 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).
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The Zcash Foundation Board of Directors comprises:
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- [_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.
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- [_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.
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- [_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.
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- [_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.
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- [_Ian Miers_](https://cs.jhu.edu/~imiers/) • Postdoc studying computer security and applied cryptography at Cornell Tech, and one of the creators of Zcash.
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Former members:
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- [_Naval Ravikant_](https://angel.co/naval) • Founder and CEO of AngelList, and one of the venture capital investors behind Zcash.
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- [_Yan Zhu_](https://diracdeltas.github.io/) • Senior Software Engineer at Brave and security researcher.
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The Foundation's employees:
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- [_Josh Cincinnati_](https://twitter.com/acityinohio) • Executive Director of the Foundation, and an active member of the cryptocurrency community.
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- [_Antonie Hodge_](https://twitter.com/antoniehodge) • Operations Director of the Zcash Foundation. Also serves as Operations Director at Coin Center.
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- [_Sonya Mann_](https://twitter.com/sonyaellenmann) • Communications Manager for the Foundation and a former tech journalist.
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