Alex Yenkalov
Co-Founder, CEO & CPTO
Alex Yenkalov is founder, CEO, and CPTO at ZeroCrimes.
He drives ZeroCrimes' mission to build a generational robotics control system that delivers privacy, security, and safety when humanoids operate around the globe, and to foster deep collaboration among federal and state governments and manufacturers in establishing multi‑layered security boundaries for global robotics.
Previously, he co-founded Portabl, a privacy-preserving financial identity and confidential fraud-signaling network (acq. by Prove, 2025), and Tenebrae, an institutional DeFi protocol serving compliant confidential transactions on‑chain.
Earlier, he led machine identity and compliance solutions in the pharma and automotive industries as CTO at Spherity (2018‑2021), building a 20-person team that worked with enterprises and governments.
His prior work also spans leadership roles at the FX derivatives team at UBS AG, the online marketplace JustEat, and finance/identity-focused teams at ConsenSys.