Lynzi Ziegenhagen

Founder/CEO

Bandio PBC

Lynzi Ziegenhagen is the Founder/CEO of Bandio, a Public Benefit Corporation that is the brainchild of Common Sense Media and the cryptography and blockchain leader, Aleo. Bandio enables age-appropriate digital experiences by providing everyone (starting with young people) a digital age-band they can use across the internet to anonymously provide their age range to sites and apps. In the early days of the Internet, Lynzi wrote a parent's guide to keeping kids safe online as part of the Children's Partnership. More recently, Lynzi founded and served as CEO of Schoolzilla, PBC, a data platform for school systems that benefits more than 20 million students globally as part of Renaissance Learning. Lynzi holds a bachelors from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems and a masters in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School focused on computer security.