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Vlad brings more than 25 years of experience in IT to Bitfury, including 17 years in IT management, consulting, sales and strategy development, as well as nine years in management positions supporting strategic government partnerships.

Vlad has spent his career developing and deploying ICT strategies for industrial and governmental customers in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Kazakhstan, with a focus on business development, countrywide projects, multilayer security and standardization. Prior to joining Bitfury, he served as the Head of Government Relations for the leading mobile operator VEON Group, the Director of Global Government Relations for the CEMEA region for Visa and the Public Sector Director for Microsoft.

Vlad Radysh

Mr. Misra serves as the CEO of SoftBank Investment Advisers, the investment manager to the SoftBank Vision Funds, Corporate Officer and Executive Vice President of SoftBank Group Corp. Previously he was a Senior Managing Director and Partner at Fortress Investment Group. Prior to that, he served as the Global Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities at UBS between 2009 and 2013 and Global Head of Credit and Emerging Markets at Deutsche Bank between 1997 and 2008, where he built a successful global fixed income business from scratch; recruiting and mentoring many employees.

Mr. Misra currently is a Board Member of Fortress Investment Group, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT Sloan School of Management, and is on the Board of Trustees of KAUST. He received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Rajeev Misra

Timur is the Head of Kazakhstan for the Bitfury Group. Timur has more than 10 years of experience in consulting, strategic management, entrepreneurship and startup foundations. Before joining Bitfury, Timur co-founded several startups and innovation companies, such as Bridge Group Ltd, a consulting company that drives corporate innovations in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Austria and the US. Prior to his work with Bridge Group Ltd, Timur was the consulting division leader of Hewlett-Packard in Kazakhstan, where he was responsible for the coordination of activities of HP BUs on large, complex strategic projects in the region. He was responsible for the development and sale of HP services in the fields of information security, educational services, data migration and the design and architecture of data centers.

Before joining HP, Timur held strategic management roles with the National Exploration Company KazGeology, the government IT holding company Zerde and the Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna, which manages $80-90 billion assets and more than 500 subsidiaries. As the Director of Strategy and Corporate Governance for Samruk-Kazyna, Timur contributed to the development and implementation of best practices of corporate governance and strategic development of the SK and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
Timur also serves on the supervisory board member of the Astana Startup Hub, one of the new main startup ecosystems in Kazakhstan, and teaches an MBA course on strategy and corporate governance.

Timur Bairov

Most recently, Mr. Brooks served as Chief Executive Officer of digital asset exchange and marketplace Binance.US. Previously, from May 2020 to January 2021, Mr. Brooks served as the Acting Comptroller of the Currency, where he was the administrator of the federal banking system and the chief executive of the 3,500-employee federal agency responsible for chartering and supervising banks comprising 70 percent of all banking activity in the United States. He also served as a member of the board of directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and a voting member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Often referred to in the media as “the first fintech Comptroller” and “CryptoComptroller” for his work advancing financial innovation, Mr. Brooks led the government’s efforts to provide regulatory clarity for stablecoins, digital asset custody, and the development of blockchain payment networks, and granted the first federal bank charter to a cryptocurrency company. He also launched Project REACh, a national partnership of civil rights organizations, tech companies, and banks to promote financial inclusion through greater access to credit and capital.

From 2018 to 2020, Mr. Brooks served as Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase Global, Inc., where he led legal, compliance, internal audit, government relations, and global investigations groups at the digital asset platform. From 2014 to 2018, he served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Fannie Mae, a $3.2 trillion asset public company that is the world’s largest investor in single-family and multifamily mortgage assets, and from 2011 to 2014, as Vice Chairman of OneWest Bank, N.A. Before joining OneWest Bank, N.A., he served as managing partner of O’Melveny & Myers LLP’s Washington, D.C. office.

Mr. Brooks also serves as an adviser or board member for a number of financial and fintech companies. Mr. Brooks received his BA from Harvard University and his JD from the University of Chicago.

Brian P. Brooks

Mr. Gould manages the Company’s core legal functions, provides strategic advice to management and the board, and engages with policymakers and regulators globally on behalf of Bitfury and its portfolio companies.

Over the past decade, Mr. Gould has emerged as one of the most important voices on financial law and policy in the United States. Most recently, Mr. Gould served as the Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel at the United States Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). In this role, Mr. Gould managed over 230 people and oversaw all of the agency’s legal and licensing activities, including legal advisory services to banks and examiners, enforcement, litigation, agency administrative matters, legislative initiatives, the chartering of new banks, and changes in structure and activities of existing banks. He played a key role in the U.S. interagency bank regulatory process with his peers at the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Among his many achievements at the OCC, Mr. Gould led the agency’s efforts to expand the scope of the national bank charter to encompass fintech and cryptocurrency activities, and he authored the OCC’s pathbreaking guidance on stablecoins, crypto custody activities, and blockchain validator node functions.

Prior to joining the OCC, Mr. Gould served as Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee and had senior roles at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and Promontory Financial Group, an important financial services and fintech consultancy.

Mr. Gould holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a law degree from Washington and Lee University.

Jonathan Gould

Chandra S. Katta is the CTO at [Bitfury](/org/bitfury). Prior to joining [Bitfury](/org/bitfury), Chandra was a Lead Research Scientist at Intel Labs where they worked on technology research to drive innovations in low-power graphics and voice-assisted ML capabilities for smart-home devices. Chandra has also held senior engineering positions at Intel Corporation, where they were responsible for pathfinding R&D on nascent technologies from concept to volume production, and led HW/SW/Platform engineering teams to deliver energy-efficient high-performance computing products. Chandra is a recipient of the 2021 Intel Gordy Award and was recognized by IEEE-ISSCC in 2022 for their conference paper on "Highlighted Chip Releases."

Chandra Katta received their Masters of Science in Computer Engineering from the [University of Louisiana at Lafayette](/org/university-of-louisiana-at-lafayette) and Executive Education from [Stanford University](/org/stanford)'s Graduate School of Business.

Their manager is Brian P. Brooks, CEO. Chandra S. Katta works with Samy Biyadi - Head of Power, Fabrizio Del Maffeo - Head of [Bitfury](/org/bitfury) AI, and Timur Bairov - Head of [Bitfury](/org/bitfury) Kazakhstan.

Chandra S. Katta

George Kikvadze is the Executive Vice Chairman at [Bitfury](/org/bitfury), a Blockchain technology company. George has over 20 years of experience in investments, capital markets and management. Prior to joining [Bitfury](/org/bitfury), Kikvadze was a Managing Partner at Emergent Capital, an M&A advisory & investment management company registered in Cayman Islands. Throughout the years Emergent Capital has attracted capital and advised on deals totaling $2 bln. Some notable deals Kikvadze has been involved in include Board Member & Chief Investment Officer of Terra Food Holding - largest dairy group in Ukraine, Board Member & Chief Investment Officer Ukrlandfarmng PLC - leading agro-industrial holding in Ukraine, managing some 550,000 hectares (1mln acres) of prime farmland, Chairman of the Board - VAB Bank - top 20 Bank in Ukraine (Assets ~ $1 bln), and Advisor to the Owner: TBILVINO - a leading winery based in the Republic of Georgia. In addition, Kikvadze is also a member of the Advisory Board of Georgian Co-Investment Fund.

George Kikvadze

Oleg Blinkov is the Head of Data Centres Development & Operations at [Bitfury](/org/bitfury). He was leading new mining data centers development of about 500MW in different parts of the globe. Prior to his current role, Oleg was responsible for managing various businesses in a position of statutory director. He brings more then 20 years of development experience in construction, technology, supply chain and distribution sectors. He was studying business administration in Durham University Business School in United Kingdom and Computer Science in Telecommunication Institute in Latvia.



Oleg Blinkov

Joe Capes is the CEO of LiquidStack, a leading provider of high-performance computing and liquid cooling technologies. Prior to this role, he was the Head of Bitfury Allied Control, Capes served as Global Director of Cooling Offer Development for [Schneider Electric](/org/schneider-electric)’s cloud and service provider customer segment. He has held senior-level management positions in sales, marketing, product management and business development for [Schneider Electric](/org/schneider-electric), spanning 19 years of service with the company. Capes is an accomplished entrepreneur and start-up company executive with extensive mergers and acquisitions experience. He was previously vice president of Sales and Marketing for Premium Power, responsible for the commercialization of advanced battery power systems used in telecoms, utility and renewable energy applications. Capes was also co-founder and general manager of [Coolcentric](/org/coolcentric), a company that provides high efficiency liquid cooling solutions for data centers and high-performance computing applications. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from [Lehigh University](/org/lehigh-university) and is named as an inventor in several patents related to data center cooling technologies.

Joe Capes

Dmitry Strukov

Samy is the senior business development manager for [Bitfury](/org/bitfury)’s renewable energy projects, focusing on business collaborations between crypto-mining and renewable energy sources. Prior to joining [Bitfury](/org/bitfury), Samy worked for the corporate venture capital arm of one of the largest French oil and gas companies, Total S.A, as well as in the mergers and acquisitions department of Sunpower where he led several investments in the areas of smart-grids, energy storage, distributed energy resources and mobility. He has held several board member positions for software startups in the US and the EU such as [AutoGrid](/org/autogrid), [Cosmo Tech](/org/cosmo-tech) and [Sunverge](/org/sunverge). Samy has been active in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space since 2014 and participated at a significant level in several successful ICOs. He then went on to join Hypernet Inc., an early-stage company active in the field of decentralized computing. At Hypernet, Samy helped define the corporate strategy and its token economics, leading them to a successful $10 million private token offering. Samy graduated from leading French academies [Ecole Normale Supérieure](/org/ecole-normale-superieure) and [Ecole Polytechnique](/org/ecole-polytechnique) with degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering and a specialization in renewable energy technologies.


Samy Biyadi

Valery Vavilov is the Chairman and founder of the [Bitfury](/org/bitfury) Group – the world’s leading emerging technologies company. Valery's entrepreneurial experience and passion for blockchain led him to found the company in 2011, when blockchain was just beginning to capture the world’s attention and imagination. A native Latvian who experienced first-hand the challenges resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Valery was inspired by the technology and saw an opportunity to build technological solutions that could improve the lives of people all over the world. Valery focused first on the hardware solutions that would ensure security and trust in the Bitcoin Blockchain, leading [Bitfury](/org/bitfury) to develop six generations of cutting-edge chips and state-of-the-art data center designs. Under his leadership, the company has expanded its focus to provide custom-designed software and advanced hardware in cryptocurrency, blockchain and artificial intelligence, all while maintaining its position as one of the major public Bitcoin Blockchain security and transaction providers. Prior to founding [Bitfury](/org/bitfury), Valery spent more than 15 years in a variety of technical and leadership positions. He has received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Riga’s Transport & Telecommunication University in Latvia and has completed the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Among other leadership initiatives, he is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Fourth Industrial Revolution Council on Blockchain.

Valery Vavilov

Bill Tai is a prolific individual investor and entrepreneur, serving as the Founding Chairman of Treasure Data; a former Board Director of Bitfury, and a Board Director of Voxer. He is also a lead investor as an individual in Canva, Shoes of Prey, Tango.me, Tweetdeck/Twitter, and Zoom.us. Bill established the Silicon Valley office for Charles River Ventures and is a Partner Emeritus backing Ark, Maxthon, Scribd, and Wish.com on CRV's behalf. Previously Bill served as Partner at IVP, and was Founding CEO of iAsiaWorks (IPO 2000 via Goldman Sachs & Morgan Stanley). He was Founding Chairman of IPinfusion (Tokyo:4813) and past Board Director of 7 publicly listed companies: AWRD EGHT IAWK NPIX TMTA TUNE and IMGO. He serves on the World Economic Forum's Technology Pioneer Committee is an Adjunct Professor of Innovation at Curtin University in Perth Australia. He started his career as a computer chip designer and previously worked for semiconductor behemoth TSMC. He holds a BSEE with Honors from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Harvard.

Bill Tai

Greg Li is the Head of Asia Pacific for The Bitfury Group, the leading global full-service blockchain solutions company. Mr. Li has more than 25 years of management, strategy and business development experience in the hi-tech and financial services industries. He has extensive experience in pioneering the sales and development of new and cutting-edge services and solutions, including blockchain, cryptocurrency, reinsurance, telecom infrastructure, network security and more. Mr. Li has served as the Executive Director of the Li Xing Foundation, a non-profit education foundation for children in China. He has an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, a Master’s degree in Buddhism from the University of Hong Kong, and a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Greg Li

Carlo Frondaroli is the CFO of the Bitfury Group. Carlo offers 30 years of experience in international business, mostly serving as a Senior Finance Executive in Technology, Telecoms, Consumer Electronics & Mobile Digital Services sectors, with additional senior roles in Operations, Sales & Strategy; he also served and serving as Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Member, both in large companies (Nokia China Investment Corp; Nokia Telecommunication Ltd), start-ups (Vertu; ZoneV) and not-for-profit organizations.

Carlo as been financially and operationally responsible for large multi-national businesses at Nokia where he was, among the others, Greater China CFO, Vice President Finance for Eastern Markets, Vice President Finance for Global Markets and Operations, and at Lenovo, where he headed the Mobile Business Group Global Sales Operations and was EMEA COO.

Earlier, he co-founded Vertu, the pioneering luxury mobile company, served as CFO in SMEs and was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Chamber of Commerce in China. Most recently, he joined Bitfury as Group CFO in April 2021, and he's serving in non-executive positions at Fairtrade International, Manchester Metropolitan University and Zone V Ltd.

He resided in multiple countries and managed most geographies, with particular skew on Emerging Markets, and specialises in growth, scaling & structuring, and international expansion. Carlo enjoys to operate cross functionally, in-between strategy, operations and finance, and to foster collaboration between people across organizations, borders, ethnicities and cultures.

He has a Master Degree in Business Administration from EU Business School, Montreux (CH), a Diploma in Advanced Executive Management from SDA Bocconi, Milan and a degree in applied psychology from Universita’ La Sapienza, Rome.

Carlo Frondaroli

Marat Kichikov

Fabrizio Del Maffeo

Nino Todua

Marina Khaustova

Young K. Sohn

Brian Forde

Jackson Hu

Hernando De Soto

Annette Nazareth

Antoine Dresch

Jason Weinstein

Marc Witzke has more than 20 years of experience in global R&D, engineering and manufacturing of semiconductors and electronic products. He served Yota Devices, the inventor of the dual-screen YotaPhone as the CTO and led the HW and SW R&D teams in Finland, Moscow and China developing consumer electronics and connectivity devices. Prior to Yota Devices, he served Plastic Logic - a pioneer in flexible and organic electronics technology - for more than 6 years as the Director of Manufacturing and General Director of Plastic Logic’s Russian entity. Prior to this, Marc was the Senior Manager of Technology in AEMtec, a spin-off of Infineon Technologies, for 7 years. He was one of the start-up management team members of AEMtec and has led technology development through rapid growth. Marc started his career with Siemens, Fibre Optics business unit, where he served as a Process Engineer and later Operations Manager. He has led various novel technology, start-up businesses and manufacturing projects in many countries.


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