Alex Leishman

Alex Leishman founded River and has served as its CEO and CTO, overseeing engineering, corporate strategy and investor relations. Before River, he worked on Bitcoin venture investments at Polychain Capital and on Airbnb’s security engineering team. His earlier career included consulting at Deloitte and engineering at Maicoin. He holds an aerospace-engineering degree from the University of Maryland and a master’s in computer science from Stanford University, where he helped teach a Bitcoin class.