Diogo is a General Partner at Haun Ventures. 

Diogo is the co-founder of Anchorage Digital, where he served as President prior to joining Haun Ventures and where he currently serves as Executive Chairman. Anchorage Digital is the first federally chartered crypto-native bank in the US. Prior to founding Anchorage Digital, Diogo served as Platform Security Lead at Square (now known as Block). At Square, Diogo worked on the infrastructure security platform (including identity, access management, and responses systems) that is now used to move over $200B in annualized gross payments volume.  Diogo also served as Security Lead at Docker, where he and his team wrote code that helps secure one of the core underpinnings of modern computing infrastructure: containers. Diogo serves as the Chairman of the NEAR Foundation. He previously served as an advisor to Airtable and StackRox.

Diogo has spoken worldwide on the topics of usable security, cryptography, and distributed systems. He served as a member of the technical oversight board of the Open Container Initiative, and volunteers for IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization. Diogo was previously the Chair of the IEEE Disruptive Innovations and Public Visibility committees, reporting directly to the IEEE board of directors. Diogo holds dozens of patents in the fields of cryptography, payments, and security. Diogo has been involved in developing several projects that now serve as industry standards for security, including the Notary project, accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. 

Diogo holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Networks Engineering, as well as a Ph.D. in computer science with a focus on network security from the Instituto Superior Técnico at the University of Lisbon.