Sue Ennis

Sue Ennis, Hut 8 Mining’s Vice President of Corporate Development, is a Chartered Investment Manager, emerging technology and innovation champion, advisor and business building technologist.

Working with CEOs to build some of Canada’s greatest young tech companies, Sue is a seasoned capital markets advisor and storyteller who can simplify complex concepts into digestible, actionable, and investible ones. As a growing leader in the digital space, she is a sought-after industry voice who has championed technological innovation as a media spokesperson and keynote speaker across the globe. Since 2016, Sue has steered under-appreciated companies in the digital asset sector into multi-billion market cap opportunities and told some of Canada’s greatest emerging tech and innovation stories.

Prior to joining Hut 8, Sue worked with both startups and scale ups in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. As one of the first wealth directors at Coinsquare in 2017, she helped launch commercial operations for the wealth division, targeting high net worth and corporate clients. Her impact included creating, testing and systematizing customer acquisition and engagement strategies, particularly in the nascent blockchain gaming developer space.

She later joined Shyft Network, a public protocol designed to validate identity and compliance directly into open source blockchain data by facilitating the transfer of verifiable data between centralized and decentralized ecosystems. As VP of global partnerships, she was instrumental in building out customer verticals and acquisition strategies in the digital asset exchange; Accounting; Gaming and Cannabis space.

Sue was also brought on as a fintech innovation leader, and a member of the board of FICANEX group of companies in 2020, and throughout the company’s acquisition by Prodigy labs in 2021.

Prior to 2016, Sue spent a decade in the financial services and fintech space, working with financial services firms, institutional asset managers and technology companies to optimize sales, strategic planning, capital markets positioning, investor relations, business development and territory expansion.

True to her risk-taking reputation in the crypto space, Sue is never one to evade a challenge or an opportunity for adventure having run ultra-marathons in Greenland and the Middle East, worked on a shark research boat in South Africa and completed a jungle survival course in the Amazon.