The Team
Board of Directors
Providing governance and oversight for Sovright. Among them are the people who helped invent private digital money and have kept open networks decentralized in the years since.
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sudo_ml
Chairman
Builder and strategist at the intersection of digital assets, privacy policy, and decentralized infrastructure. Sudo brings institutional perspective and a sharp eye for what sovereignty actually requires at scale.
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Zaki Manian
Board of Directors
Veteran cryptographic infrastructure builder and long-time contributor to the Zcash ecosystem. Zaki brings deep experience across consensus mechanisms, validator operations, and privacy-preserving protocol design.
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Alan Fairless
Board of Directors
A privacy-software pioneer who co-founded SpiderOak, whose no-knowledge model Edward Snowden publicly endorsed. Fairless has helped govern the Zcash ecosystem's core nonprofit since 2019.
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Christina Garman
Board of Directors
Founding scientist of Zcash and co-author of Zerocash, the IEEE Test-of-Time-winning paper Zcash is built on. Garman is a computer science professor at Purdue whose lab builds privacy-enhancing systems and exposes flaws in the hardware the industry treats as secure.
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Colby Thomson
Board of Directors
Founder and philanthropist with a long view of how powerful technology reshapes personal autonomy. Consummate board member across for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Thomson brings deep experience across security, human rights, and AI safety, built over nearly a decade on the board of the Human Rights Foundation.