Evan Cheng is the co-founder & CEO of Mysten Labs, the developer behind the groundbreaking Sui layer 1 protocol.

Before founding Mysten Labs, he led Novi Financial, which employed some of the world’s foremost experts in distributed systems, programming language, cryptography, and formal verification, and delivered the Move programming language.

As an individual contributor and manager, he led Apple’s efforts in low-level developer and system design tools. In April 2013, the ACM awarded Evan its Software System Award, presented to individuals "recognized for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both."

Evan graduated from Marietta College with a B.S. in computer science and math and an M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University.