Alex Pruden is the Executive Director of the Aleo Network Foundation, the organization building Aleo, the leading zero-knowledge-proof L1 blockchain. Alex is a prominent voice at the intersection of privacy, cryptography and web3. He’s a contributor to the Zero Knowledge media group and a founder of ZPrize, a cross-collaborative, cross-industry competition focused on making digital privacy a reality. Alex is an a16z, Coinbase and Standford Business School alum and was a former U.S. Army Green Beret.