Anil Dash (/ɑːˈniːl ˈdæʃ/; born September 5, 1975) is an American technology executive, entrepreneur, Prince scholar[2] and writer.

From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a new media developer for the Village Voice before becoming the first employee of Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad, and Vox, where he served as a vice president until 2009.

[8] After this work, he became an advisor to the White House Office of Digital Strategy under the Obama administration.

[19][18][20] Dash has been critical of present day usage of the NFT concept, stating "The only thing we’d wanted to do was ensure that artists could make some money and have control over their work," and that co-creator "McCoy still believes that blockchain technologies can help artists sustain their work.

[22] In 2022 Dash and McCoy won the Webby lifetime achievement award for the development of NFTs.