Ais Connolly

TACEO
Chief Strategy Officer
Ais Connolly is Chief Strategy Officer at TACEO. She holds degrees in mathematics, economics, and computer science, and earned her PhD at ENS Paris. Her work spans threshold cryptography and confidential computing across traditional finance and web3, combining technical development with strategy and legal considerations around privacy tech. Ais speaks about deploying cryptographically enforceable privacy that remains verifiable and operationally usable for regulated systems, including payments and blockchain infrastructure.
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