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TORONTO, Ontario and BROSSARD, Québec, June 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitfarms Ltd. (“Bitfarms”, or the “Firm”) (TSXV: BITF // OTC:BFARF), as we speak proclaims the appointment of Jeffrey Lucas as Chief Monetary Officer, efficient June 14, 2021, in addition to two administration promotions.
Mr. Lucas brings to Bitfarms in depth worldwide monetary and operational expertise with public corporations listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq. He shall be answerable for the oversight of the finance, accounting, and reporting capabilities with the mandate to boost capital, improve our company communications, develop our investor relations actions, enhance analyst protection, and help and combine acquisitions as a part of constructing a better stage of economic and operational excellence all through the Firm.
Previous to his company roles, Mr. Lucas labored in excessive yield funding banking with L. F. Rothschild and in institutional cash administration as a securities analyst with Wells Capital Administration. He’s a Chartered Monetary Analyst and Licensed Public Accountant, having acquired that certification whereas with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a member of their know-how and industrials practices. Mr. Lucas earned an MBA with emphasis on finance from Harvard Enterprise College and a BA in Economics from Tufts College and studied on the London College of Economics.
“Jeff’s expertise in main and driving operational change at excessive progress, transformational industrial and know-how corporations will allow him to make a direct impression at Bitfarms as we develop internationally and put together for our anticipated upcoming itemizing on Nasdaq. We stay up for Jeff’s robust management and he shall be a superb addition to our govt administration staff,” mentioned Emiliano Grodzki, Bitfarms’ CEO. “As well as, I want to thank Mauro Ferrara, our interim CFO, for his contributions to Bitfarms over the previous seven months. He stepped into our Firm at a difficult time by which the trade was experiencing important change and evolution. “We’re happy that Mauro will assist us in transition, with a attainable ongoing function as a part of our finance employees to be decided. We stay up for our continued work with Mauro and need him the easiest for his profession.”
Additional strengthening our govt staff, Director of Mining Operations, Ben Gagnon, has been named because the Firm’s Chief Mining Officer and Nathaniel Port, Director of Finance has been named Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting, each efficient June 1, 2021.
“I’m notably happy to announce the promotions of Nathaniel and Ben,” mentioned Mr. Grodzki, “We’re lucky to have this caliber of expertise on our staff. Every has contributed considerably to Bitfarms’ progress and improvement and shall be instrumental to attaining our strategic progress plans for 2021 and past.”
Mr. Gagnon has been working within the Bitcoin mining trade since 2015. His appreciable mining and worldwide expertise consists of establishing mining operations in China, Canada, and the US, in addition to founding a number of Bitcoin corporations and creating applied sciences, together with mining as a service, destructive emissions mining (in any other case known as turn-key flare gasoline mitigation) and immersion cooling know-how.
Mr. Gagnon joined Bitfarms in December 2019 as Director of Enterprise Improvement. Recognizing his in depth expertise and early contributions to Bitfarms, he was promoted to Director of Mining Operations, the place he performed a pivotal function in creating and managing our mining technique and operations.
Mr. Gagnon has a B.Sc. in Economics and Worldwide Enterprise from the Kelley College of Enterprise at Indiana College and an M.Sc. in Web Computing and E-commerce with a specialty in Cyber Safety from Hong Kong College.
Mr. Port joined Bitfarms in 2018 as certainly one of its earliest workers. He’s answerable for Bitfarms’ monetary reporting and dealing capital administration and serves as the first interface with the Firm’s Huge 4 audit agency. Mr. Port was instrumental in creating Bitfarms’ finance operate and contributed considerably in direction of the Firm’s strategic monetary targets, notably Bitfarms’ itemizing as the primary cryptocurrency firm on the TSX Enterprise Trade to finish a long-form prospectus with the Ontario Securities Fee, and the Firm’s anticipated upcoming itemizing on the Nasdaq World Market.
Previous to becoming a member of Bitfarms, Mr. Port labored in in public accounting managing audit engagements for purchasers primarily within the manufacturing and know-how sectors. He graduated with distinction from Concordia College’s John Molson College of Enterprise and positioned on CPA Canada’s Nationwide Honour Roll.
The Firm has granted Mr. Lucas 364,050 incentive inventory choices, pursuant to the Firm’s Inventory Choice Plan (the “Choices”). The Choices are exercisable into one widespread share of the Firm at a value of $5.45, for a interval of 5 years from the date of grant and are topic to vesting situations.
About Bitfarms Ltd.
Based in 2017, Bitfarms is a Bitcoin mining firm, working vertically built-in mining operations with onsite technical restore, proprietary knowledge analytics and Firm-owned electrical engineering and set up companies to ship excessive operational efficiency and uptime.
Having demonstrated fast progress and stellar operations, Bitfarms turned the primary Bitcoin mining firm to finish its lengthy kind prospectus with the Ontario Securities Fee and began buying and selling on the TSX-V in July 2019. On February 24, 2021, Bitfarms was honoured to be introduced as a Rising Star by the TSX-V.
Bitfarms has a diversified manufacturing platform with 5 industrial scale amenities situated in Québec. Every facility is 100% powered with environmentally pleasant hydro energy and secured with long-term energy contracts. Bitfarms is presently the one publicly traded pure-play mining firm audited by a Huge 4 audit agency.
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Contacts
Investor Relations:
CORE IR
+1 516 222 2560
Investors@bitfarms.com
US Media:
CORE IR
Jules Abraham, Director of Public Relations
julesa@coreir.com
YAP World
Mia Grodsky, Account Government
mia@yapglobal.com
Québec Media:
Ryan Affaires publiques
Marc Duchesne, Directeur / Director
marc@ryanap.com
