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The Zcash Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Delaware.
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/ZcashFoundation/
The Zcash board of directors comprises:
- [_Andrew Miller_](https://soc1024.com/) (chair, president)
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_](http://www.petervv.com/) (secretary)
Peter Van Valkenburgh is the Director of Research at Coin Center, a non-profit organization focused on resarch, education, and advocacy on topics involving policy and cryptocurrencies.
- [_Matthew Green_](https://isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/)
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.
- [_Yan Zhu_](https://diracdeltas.github.io/)
Yan is a Senior Software Engineer at Brave and a security researcher.