Eli Ben-Sasson is a co-founder of Zcash, co-founder, CEO, and Board Chair of StarkWare, and Founding Scientist at Electric Coin Company (also known as Zcash Co). He served as an Associate Professor at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology for seven years, was a Visiting Assistant Professor at TTI in Chicago, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.