# Alec James

> Alec James is the Ecosystem Growth Manager at Ora Protocol, co-founder of You Change Earth, and former Product Manager at Fibre.

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- Created: 2024-03-08T10:14:06.393Z
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**Alec James** is the Ecosystem Growth Manager at [Ora Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ora-protocol) — a verifiable [oracle](https://iq.wiki/wiki/oracle) protocol that brings AI and complex computation on-chain. [\[1\]](#cite-id-98v7l9fmdsu)[\[2\]](#cite-id-8fyyp28ucpk)  
  
# Education  
  
Alec James attended Duke University from 2019 to 2023 and graduated with a B.A. Psychology & B.A. Environmental Science & Policy. Afterward, he was accepted for a merit scholarship into Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. [\[1\]](#cite-id-98v7l9fmdsu)[\[3\]](#cite-id-id8lahy0rp)  
  
# Career  
  
In January 2020, Alec co-founded You Change Earth — a climate action web app to inform personalized high-impact behavioral change and he served as the Head of Growth until August 2021. He then served as a Product Manager at Fibre until 2022. [\[4\]](#cite-id-to261y2lud)  
  
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In January 2022, he co-founded Harkness DAO — an international community of builders developing digital products and he served as the Product Manager until October 2022. He also interned at Common Action and Quantum Temple as a Product Manager where he supported the development of industry-leading products in the impact-tech sector by driving progress at all lifecycle stages. [\[1\]](#cite-id-98v7l9fmdsu)[\[5\]](#cite-id-rbyzn8mnljc)  
  
## ORA  
  
Alec James joined [ORA Protocol](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ora-protocol) (fka HyperOracle) in January 2024 as the Ecosystem Growth Manager. Ora Protocol offers an on-chain oracle protocol (zkOracle protocol) that handles arbitrary computations for [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) [smart contracts](https://iq.wiki/wiki/smart-contract). With two main products — AI Oracle (OAO) and ZK Oracle, Ora positions itself as an [oracle](https://iq.wiki/wiki/oracle) solution for developers, offering practical AI Oracle functionality usable on [Ethereum](https://iq.wiki/wiki/ethereum). Additionally, their ZK Oracle is trustless and solely cryptography-based. [\[6\]](#cite-id-kweek2kprro)  
  
On February 14, 2024, Ora introduced Onchain AI Oracle (OAO), a set of [smart contracts](https://iq.wiki/wiki/smart-contract) allowing onchain ML inference. [\[8\]](#cite-id-4n9ca4dykwc)  
  
> "The team released the world’s first product that allows smart contracts, dApps and blockchains to be powered by AI. OAO is based on a standard for combining AI inference and blockchain systems, called Optimistic Machine Learning (opML). This solved the issues of cost and efficiency associated with Zero-Knowledge ML (zkML) and facilitates the use of AI in blockchain systems right now" - Alec James posted on Linkedin[\[7\]](#cite-id-ehmi8uzdhr6)