Our Team

CEO and Chairman

Jonathan Bates

Director

Michael Maloney

Chief Financial Officer, Board Member

Raymond Mow

Chief Operating Officer

Ryan Ramnath

Director of Mining Operations

Sam Jorgensen

President

Erik Nelson

Director

Lori Love

Director

Seth Bayles

Advisor

Gabriel Abed

CEO and Chairman

Jonathan Bates

Jonathan, a former Managing Director at J.P. Morgan Securities, has over 30 years of financial industry experience. His expertise lies in analyzing market interrelations, institutional trading, and multiasset portfolios, which are vital to the organization’s operations. He graduated with a degree in Business Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Director

Michael Maloney

Michael is the former CFO of Coinmint and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, where he teaches Bitcoin and Digital Asset Regulation. He played a pivotal role in co-founding Galaxy Digital, the first merchant bank serving the blockchain space, and was a founding member of Ernst & Young’s Distributed Ledger Technology group.

Chief Financial Officer, Board Member

Raymond Mow

Raymond has over 28 years of financial industry experience, most recently as Managing Director of Fixed Income at First Foundation Advisers, managing $2.3 billion. He was also a Senior Portfolio Manager at Highmark Capital Management, overseeing $2 billion.

Chief Operating Officer

Ryan Ramnath

Ryan is the former CEO of Bitflair and a graduate of the University of Toronto with a degree in Mechanical Engineering – High Distinction. He has five years of experience in the oil and gas industry across upstream and downstream sectors. As a co-founder of Bitflair, he successfully launched its first liquid-cooled mine in Trinidad.

Director of Mining Operations

Sam Jorgensen

Samuel is the former CFO of Bitflair and attended the Schulich School of Business in Toronto. He has held financial management roles in cryptocurrency mining and commercial construction, with expertise in accounting and hands-on experience in data networking and mining infrastructure since co-founding Bitflair in 2017.

President

Erik Nelson

Erik is a finance professional with extensive experience in securities markets and investment banking, including capital markets, project management, corporate governance, SEC regulations, financial modeling, mergers and acquisitions, and financial analysis.

Director

Lori Love

Lori Love is a CPA with over 20 years in accounting and finance. She has held “C” level roles in various sectors, including cryptocurrency and healthcare. As CFO of CleanSpark, Inc. from October 2019 to December 2021, she managed financial strategy and SEC reporting. She holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Director

Seth Bayles

Seth is a Corporate Attorney with over 20 years of experience practicing in the areas of entertainment, finance, technology, and commercial contracts. He has his B.A. in Economics and History from Brandeis University, his J.D. from Emory University School of Law, and his L.L.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Advisor

Gabriel Abed

Gabriel Abed is widely recognized as a leading authority on Central Bank digital currencies, math-based protocols, and blockchain technology globally and is the first entrepreneur to establish blockchain companies in the Caribbean as early as 2010.