2024-01-19 – 16:00-16:45 (Africa/Abidjan), Bitcoin Park
Public Miners are Here to Stay
Ten31 co-founder. Focused investment platform building out the Bitcoin ecosystem.
Alex Thorn is Head of Firmwide Research at Galaxy Digital. At Galaxy, Alex leads a team of researchers dedicated to understanding and unpacking developments in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, producing insights for internal and external audiences. Prior to joining Galaxy Digital, Alex spent 12 years at Fidelity Investments, most recently co-managing Avon Ventures, the early-stage crypto venture fund affiliated with FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Investments. Before that, Alex was Director of Blockchain Research at Fidelity Center for Applied Technology where he directed technology experimentation and published research on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem. Alex has a B.A. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University.
Trey Kelly is the Founder and CEO of GRIID Infrastructure, a vertically-integrated, US-based Bitcoin mining company. He has spent his career in building and scaling technology businesses. Trey began his career as an entrepreneur — in 2010 he founded Stampt, a mobile loyalty application, and saw it through to an acquisition by Mobivity in 2013.
Prior to GRIID, Trey worked in cybersecurity — most recently as an executive at Ziften. Trey joined as an early employee at OpenDNS and saw the business through its acquisition by Cisco Systems. He holds bachelor’s degrees in Systems Analysis as well as Mathematics and Statistics from Miami University.