My first involvement in Zcash was almost ten years in the past. On the time, Zooko was attempting to lift funding to construct Zcash, and I gave him some suggestions on his investor pitch. We stayed in touch, and I turned an advisor to the Zerocoin Electrical Coin Firm (as ECC was then identified). A few month earlier than Zcash launched, I joined the ECC crew full-time, and so I used to be there once we launched Zcash from the kitchen of an Airbnb within the Bay Space, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
For the following 4 years at ECC, after which for one more 4 years on the Zcash Basis, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside a few of the smartest and most devoted individuals I’ve ever met. In that point, I’ve watched the Zcash ecosystem develop and develop into decentralised. In addition to ECC and the Basis, we now have QEDIT, Shielded Labs, the Monetary Privateness Basis, ZecHub, ZingoLabs, and a bunch of different groups which might be funded by the Zcash Neighborhood Grants program, all of whom contribute to or help the Zcash mission in quite a lot of methods.
Because the Zcash ecosystem and neighborhood grows and evolves, so should the establishments that steward and help it, and that’s very true of the Basis.
As Govt Director, it has been my duty and privilege to serve the Zcash Basis crew, the Zcash neighborhood, and the Zcash mission for the previous 4 years. Considered one of my duties as ED is to recognise when the time is true to step apart, to permit another person to take the helm.
I imagine that point has come, and so I’m stepping down from the position of Govt Director of the Zcash Basis.
Alex Bornstein is taking up as interim ED. Alex is eminently certified, with prior expertise as ED of a 501(c)(3), and almost 4 years as ZF’s COO. In that position, he has ably supported and suggested me, and I sit up for returning the favour whereas the ZF Board begins the method of recruiting a everlasting ED who will lead ZF by the approaching evolution of its position.
I wish to thank the Zcash Basis crew and Board members — previous and current — for granting me their belief, help and endurance over the previous 4 years. I really feel very lucky to have had the chance to work full-time on a mission that aligns as strongly with my ideas as Zcash does.
To preempt any hypothesis or rumours: I’m not leaving to take up one other position, and there’s no rancour or disagreement between the ZF Board and me.
I’ll proceed to help the Zcash Basis in any means I can, and I’ll proceed to help and contribute to the broader Zcash mission as a neighborhood member.
— Jack Gavigan, former Govt Director