Silvio Micali is the founder of the platform and has been an MIT faculty member since 1983 in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He is the co-inventor of probabilistic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, verifiable random functions. Steve Kokinos is the CEO and responsible for the overall business vision and strategy. W. Sean Ford is the COO and responsible for go-to-market execution and operations, including product management, engineering, marketing, and global community development. He also ran the Integration Management Office for LogMeIn's acquisition of Jive Communications in early 2018.
The Algorand Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with a vision of a frictionless, borderless economy built on public, decentralized blockchain technology. The Algorand Foundation has built the Algorand blockchain protocol in partnership with Algorand Inc.
On the Algorand platform, every user receives rewards proportional to their stake for every block committed to the chain. Through this process, Algorand aims to encourage users to join the Algorand platform and accelerate the path to decentralization.