CZ (Changpeng Zhao)
Co-founder and former CEO
Changying Zhao, known as CZ, is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of successful startups. He founded Binance in July 2017 and, in 180 days, turned it into the world's largest digital asset platform by trading volume. As a blockchain expert, CZ founded Binance into a leading blockchain ecosystem offering diverse services including a trading platform, Binance Labs, launchpad, Binance Academy, Binance Research, Trust Wallet, Binance Charitable Foundation, as well as an NFT token platform, and many more. It is worth noting that CZ spent his youth working in burger restaurants before enrolling at McGill University in Montreal. In 2005, CZ resigned from his role as Head of Bloomberg Tradebook Futures Research & Development and moved to Shanghai to start working at Fusion Systems. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced to Bitcoin and joined Blockchain.com as Chief Technology Officer.
