Corporate Governance

Jarrod Patten has served on our board of directors since January 23, 2024. Mr. Patten founded and runs global real estate advisory firm RRG and has served as its president and chief executive officer since inception in 1996. Mr. Patten’s professional career has been dedicated to the development and execution of real estate, technology and technology management solutions that heighten operational controls, lower operating costs and deliver sustainable cost savings to users of space worldwide. Mr. Patten’s leadership, foresight and expertise have been critical drivers in the delivery of billions of dollars in value to diverse, leading-edge organizations globally. Mr. Patten has been a member of the Board of Directors of MicroStrategy Incorporated (“MicroStrategy”) since November 2004. MicroStrategy is a multi-billion dollar public company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, in the Washington metropolitan area. MicroStrategy trades under ticker symbol MSTR on the Nasdaq stock exchange. MicroStrategy is the largest, independent publicly-traded provider of business intelligence and analytics software in the world. MicroStrategy also has built out a material, digital assets business and is currently the largest public company holder of bitcoin on its corporate balance sheet. Mr. Patten received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy from the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University.

Todd Becker has served on our board of directors since January 23, 2024. Since 2009, Mr. Becker has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Green Plains, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPP), a producer of ethanol, grain handling and storage and related services). Mr. Becker has also previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Green Plains Partners since its formation in 2015, and previously served on the Board of Directors for Hillshire Brands from 2012 to 2014. He also served on the audit and compensation committee. He also spent ten years with ConAgra Foods in various management positions, including Vice President of International Trading and Marketing for ConAgra Trade Group and President of ConAgra Canada. Mr. Becker has 36 years of extensive experience in executive management, risk management, hedging and derivatives, supply chain management, M&A, and operations in numerous commodity processing and manufacturing businesses, along with significant international experience in agricultural and energy markets. In addition, he has extensive experience in debt and equity market capital raises, as well as a deep understanding and ability in investor relations and what it takes to attract and retain capital. Mr. Becker earned a master’s degree in finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Kansas.

Jeff Booth has served on our board of directors since January 23, 2024. Mr. Booth is currently an entrepreneur and author of The Price of Tomorrow – Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future. From 1999 to 2017, Mr. Booth was Chief Executive Officer and Founder of BuildDirect.com Technologies, Inc. (TSX-V:BILD) a company that connects buyers and sellers of building materials and equipment to simply the home improvement market. A visionary leader, technology entrepreneur, Mr. Booth is a Founding Partner of Ego Death Capital, a partnership of entrepreneurs that invest in other entrepreneurs solving World problems. Mr. Booth’s insights and achievements have earned him the BC Technology Industry Association's Person of the Year in 2015 and in October 2023, he was honored with induction into the prestigious BCTIA's Hall of Fame. Furthermore, in 2016, he gained recognition from Goldman Sachs, who named him one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs. In addition to his work investing and helping entrepreneurs build on the rails of Bitcoin, he is a Co-Founder of addy and NocNoc. Mr. Booth also actively serves on the boards of Fedi, and Breez, in addition to several advisory boards. A dedicated member of the Young Presidents Organization since 2004, he further contributes as a Founding Fellow at the Creative Destruction Lab.

Jordan Levy has served on our board of directors since January 23, 2024. Mr. Levy currently serves as a Managing Partner at SBNY (formerly SoftBank Capital NY) and Seed Capital Partners, an early stage Venture Capital Fund he co-founded in late 1999. SBNY is a venture capital fund specializing in mobile, social media, eCommerce and digital media investments in early stage technology companies. In addition, he serves as Co-Managing Partner of Z80 Labs, an Accelerator Fund created in 2013 in Buffalo NY to help kick-start the start-up ecosystem. Prior to co-founding Seed Capital Partners, he was co-founder of Upgrade Corporation of America and was President, co-CEO and co-Chair of its predecessor companies SOFTBANK Services Group and ClientLogic (now SITEL Worldwide). Previously, Jordan was Senior Vice President of Software Etc. (now GameStop GME:NASDAQ), a chain of computer and video game stores throughout the US. He was also Executive Vice President and co-founder of Software Distribution Services, (now known as Ingram Micro IM:NASDAQ). He started his career in Albany, New York where he worked in the New York State Senate and was actively involved in dozens of political campaigns. Mr. Levy currently serves on the board of directors of several technology companies including, Rebelmouse, Strategic Financial Solutions, and Take2. Until recently he served on the Boards of ACV Auctions, US Bitcoin (acquired by HUT8 HUT:NASDAQ), Synacor, Buzzfeed, WorkMarket (acquired by ADP), Fieldlens acquired by (WeWork), ZipList (acquired by Advance Newhouse), OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga), KickApps (acquired by KIT Digital), XO Soft (acquired by CA), HyperPublic (acquired by Groupon), Huffington Post (acquired by AOL) and VirginMega (acquired by Nike). He also serves on the Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation Executive Committee in Miami, FL. Previously, he sat on the Board of Upstate New York Regional Advisory Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, was a founding Director of Cobalt Networks prior to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems, and GT Interactive before it was acquired by Atari. Mr. Levy also served as the first non-Native American on the Board of Seneca Holdings, LLC, the business arm of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Mr. Levy holds a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Yadin Rozov has served on our board of directors since January 23, 2024. Mr. Rozov is the founder and Managing Partner of Terrace Edge Ventures LLC, a financial advisory firm providing consulting services to public and private companies and institutional investors, since January 2022. From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Rozov was a Partner of GoldenTree Asset Management LLC, a leading global credit asset management firm. From 2019 to 2021, Mr. Rozov also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Syncora Guarantee Inc. and from 2020 to 2021, as Chief Executive Officer of Financial Guaranty UK Ltd, each of which is a stand-alone specialty insurance company owned by GoldenTree. From 2009 to 2019, he was a Partner and Managing Director at Moelis & Company where he headed the Financial Institution Advisory group and was on the Management Committee of Moelis Asset Management. From 2014 to 2019, Mr. Rozov helped co-found College Avenue Student Loans LLC and served on its board and co-founded Chamonix Partners Capital Management LLC. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Rozov was a Managing Director at UBS AG, where he was the Head of the Americas for the Repositioning Group. Mr. Rozov has served on the Board of Directors of Midwest Holding Inc. since June 2022, on the Board of Directors of Neo Performance Materials Inc. since August 2022 and on the Board of Directors of Oramed Pharmaceuticals since April 2022. Mr. Rozov holds an M.Sc. in data science from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree with highest honors in physics and materials engineering from Rutgers University.

Adam Sullivan has served on our board of directors since January 23, 2024. Mr. Sullivan has served as our President since May 15, 2023. The Board of Directors appointed Mr. Sullivan to serve as Chief Executive Officer, effective as of August 2, 2023. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Sullivan joined XMS Capital Partners (a financial advisory firm) in 2017 where he served as Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets and Infrastructure Group, where he oversaw over $5 billion of transactions. While employed at XMS Capital Partners, Mr. Sullivan represented Power and Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corporation in its acquisition of Legacy Core in 2021. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Financial Economics from the University of Rochester.

Eric Weiss has served on our board of directors since January 23, 2024. Mr. Weiss is the founder and Chief Investment Officer for Blockchain Investment Group LP, a hedge fund of funds investing exclusively in blockchain assets, since October 2017. Mr. Weiss began his career as a US Government bond trader at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. After earning his MBA from Columbia Business School, Mr. Weiss joined the Private Equity and Venture Capital Division of GE Capital as a Director in the internet business space. While in this role, a client company, Internet Capital Group (ICG), pursued Mr. Weiss to join as a Director of investments in business-to-business internet companies. Mr. Weiss also served as ICG’s board representative for number of portfolio companies. Eric moved on from ICG when he was invited to serve as a founding Principal at Stripes Group, identifying and leading investments in the online direct marketing space. Mr. Weiss has also been an active investor of personal capital in hedge funds and hedge fund of funds for over twenty years and purchased his first bitcoin in December 2013.