Lisa Cuesta Bunin

Lisa Cuesta Bunin is COO at Aztec Protocol, which is building a fully programmable encrypted zkRollup. She joined as the first business hire and has worn multiple hats while scaling the team from 9 to 45 employees globally and raising $120M in funding. As COO, Lisa oversees commercialization, finance, operations, and people. She drove adoption of Aztec Connect through governance proposals and grant funding with partners including Compound, Lido, and Aave. She launched Aztec’s grants program and co-authored the Grants Program Playbook. She also spearheads the ZK Legal Working Group to coordinate legal and policy efforts across projects that are building on chain privacy and using zero knowledge technology. Before joining Aztec, Lisa was an investor at NextGen Venture Partners, a multi-stage venture fund and subsidiary of Brown Advisory, a $150B AUM investment management firm.