This is also the first thing that came out in my mind after reading the OP's ideas about creating a much better privacy solution. I don't know this but if you want Bitcoin to improve, you can simply modify the current Bitcoin's back-end which is available in Github - hence you create a Bitcoin fork. And if you want a privacy solution, you either fork it, or make a centralized-like protocol that does the same as what you do when you mix your coins using the existing mixing applications. the "founding members" itself isn't really catchy as it creates an idea that this would be a founded project and would be an independent platform and not really the "aid" for Bitcoin's anonymity.