Commercial high tech global NED, COO & CFO advising investors and companies in tech and the digital asset ecosystem. Former NED of Canadian listed tech infrastructure business Hut 8 (NASDAQ:HUT) Experienced leader driving commercial growth in technology and service businesses, with broad roles across business development, fund raising, governance and control. Extensive recent capital markets, M&A and governance experience across North America , Europe and Asia. Multiple private placement and private capital transactions and a Canadian RTO and IPO transaction, ranging from $10m to $100m.

Most recent executive role as CFO at Bitfury Group, a hyper scaling hardware and software technology business in the blockchain, HPC and AI sectors. Bitfury has scaled rapidly building data center technologies, including ASIC chips, servers and immersion cooling products building and operating data centers in Canada, Norway, Iceland, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Georgia. Bitfury has developed and launched on premise and SAAS software solutions for corporate and government customers, with a focus on blockchain technologies.

Preparing Bitfury for an main market IPO has been a major focus of the role, including an investment bank “bake off” , governance overhaul, global restructuring and Big 4 three year audit . Achieving a $1B valuation in the most recent funding round.