Perry Metzger is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and consultant who spent most of his career in the financial services industry. He was one of the early members of the Cypherpunks movement, and is the creator of the Cryptography mailing list where Bitcoin was first released.

Perry is the currently founder and CEO of Sylenic, a startup focused on using artificial intelligence to formally verify software. He is also the founder and chairman of the board of Alliance for the Future, a nonprofit coalition of entrepreneurs, technologists, and policy experts working to promote artificial intelligence technology and as well as to protect it from special interest lobbying.

He studied computer science at Columbia University and University of Pennsylvania.