My first involvement in Zcash was practically ten years in the past. On the time, Zooko was making an attempt to boost 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 group full-time, and so I used to be there after we launched Zcash from the kitchen of an Airbnb within the Bay Space, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
For the subsequent 4 years at ECC, after which for an additional 4 years on the Zcash Basis, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside among the smartest and most devoted individuals I’ve ever met. In that point, I’ve watched the Zcash ecosystem develop and turn out to be 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 can be funded by the Zcash Neighborhood Grants program, all of whom contribute to or help the Zcash mission in a wide range 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 Government Director, it has been my duty and privilege to serve the Zcash Basis group, the Zcash neighborhood, and the Zcash mission for the previous 4 years. Certainly one of my obligations as ED is to recognise when the time is correct 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 function of Government Director of the Zcash Basis.
Alex Bornstein is taking on as interim ED. Alex is eminently certified, with prior expertise as ED of a 501(c)(3), and practically 4 years as ZF’s COO. In that function, he has ably supported and suggested me, and I stay 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 function.
I need to thank the Zcash Basis group and Board members — previous and current — for granting me their belief, help and persistence over the previous 4 years. I really feel very lucky to have had the chance to work full-time on a challenge 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 function, and there’s no rancour or disagreement between the ZF Board and me.
I’ll proceed to help the Zcash Basis in any method I can, and I’ll proceed to help and contribute to the broader Zcash mission as a neighborhood member.
— Jack Gavigan, former Government Director