Board of Directors
Alan Fairless
Alan Fairless is the co-founder of SpiderOak. He has spent a decade building and bringing privacy-preserving cloud tech to market. Companies Alan founded have served hundreds-of-millions of users and received acquisition offers from public companies in the US and EU. He has discovered serious vulnerabilities in code authored at Red Hat and Google. Alan was an angel investor in the Electric Coin Company.
Christina Garman
Christina Garman is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Her research interests focus largely on practical and applied cryptography, namely the design and analysis of real world cryptographic systems.
Zaki Manian
Zaki Manian is a Co-Founder of Sommelier, the most powerful coprocessor yet for DeFi traders and Liquidity Providers. He’s also a Co-Founder of iqlusion, which provides infrastructure like a data center and a Cosmos validator for next-gen crypto technologies. Previously, Zaki helped build the Cosmos ecosystem, including launching the first public Cosmos testnet, and served as a director of Tendermint. Zaki has been a leading developer in the blockchain space since 2014, when he taught himself cryptography and began contributing to projects including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Zcash, and Tendermint. Having studied history of science at the University of Pennsylvania, Zaki’s skill sets in software engineering, programming, and computer science are largely self-taught.
Zooko Wilcox
Zooko Wilcox is the founder and CEO of the Electric Coin Company. He is one of the original cypherpunks. Zooko is a long-serving technologist and entrepreneur. His experience spans open, decentralized systems; cryptography; information security; and startups. In more than 25 years in the industry, Zooko has contributed to an array of projects — many of which champion privacy implementations — including DigiCash, Mojo Nation, ZRTP, “Zooko’s Triangle,” Tahoe-LAFS, BLAKE2, BLAKE3 and SPHINCS. He is the founder of the Electric Coin Company and Least Authority, which uniquely empower individuals with the right to consent about how, when and to whom their personal data is shared. Zooko serves as an advisor to Bolt Labs, Tezos and Brave. He serves on the board of directors for Agoric and Least Authority. He tweets often, about a range of topics. He used to blog about health science, as well.