Seattle-based RISC Zero was founded by a team of machine-learning veterans. CEO Brian Retford and Chief Science Officer Jeremy Bruestle formerly co-founded Vertex.AI, which was acquired by Intel. Technology chief Frank Laub worked at Vertex.Ai and spent time as a deep learning engineer at Intel. Ashleigh Schap recently joined RISC Zero as chief strategy officer after serving as growth lead at Uniswap Labs, the developer of leading decentralized exchange Uniswap.
