Enterprise-Grade, Sustainable, American Bitcoin Mining.

Derek Pew
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN AND A DIRECTOR OF HASHWATT

Derek Pew serves as Chairman and a Director of the Company. Mr. Pew is Chairman of The Pew Companies, LLC, a diverse holding company with interests in audio/visual distribution, cryptocurrency mining, eSport data mining, web-based media, LAN gaming centers and coal waste related patents. He is the Chief Executive Officer of RA Holdings. Prior to that, Derek was Chief Executive Officer of Network Acquisition Company, the entity that was formed to purchase the municipal wireless network in Philadelphia from EarthLink as well as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Boathouse Communications Partners, LLC and Pew Broadband Advisors, LLC, Chairman of Remi Communications, LLC and the former Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Wireless Philadelphia.

Derek began his career as an investment banker with Bankers Trust Company and, thereafter, as an attorney with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. As an investment banker and attorney, Mr. Pew participated in over $70 billion in transactions including the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, the merger of Time and Warner Communications and the merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX.

Derek has served on multiple charitable boards including, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, the Maestro’s Committee of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Advisory Boards of the Metropolitan AIDS Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance of Pennsylvania and the Greene Towne School, the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Board of Directors of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation where he chaired the Technology Committee, and is a current member of the Board of Trustees of the Agnes Irwin School where he sits on the Executive Committee and is a former chair of the Development Committee.

Mr. Pew’s family has a long history in the energy industry in Pennsylvania having founded Sunoco, Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock, several financial institutions and one of the largest NGO trusts in the United States.

Kenyon Hayward
Co-Founder, CEO

Ken Hayward is Co-Founder and CEO of HashWatt.  Mr. Hayward is a successful career entrepreneur with a professional focus on vision, and execution, from early-stage enterprises through maturation. Previous experiences include: (CEO, Chairman, and Founder) of VSPAN, the leading global cloud videoconferencing/web conferencing network services firm now (BT) British Telecom Conferencing: CEO VCopious META (virtual environment software) : SAP AG: SAP Cloud Platform: Center of Excellence: Blockchain, multi-cloud, integration service, micro services, Ariba, Concur, Big Data Altiscale, HANA, containers, AWS partnerships: CEO, Redlasso, web digital media video search syndication platform: Co-Founder VP Sales, AVS (async) digital voice store and forward ASP acquired by Telecom USA/MCI. President, BF, LLC Real Estate (Diversified Holdings) His experience includes: capital raising experience from top tier investors and venture capital firms including Goldman Sachs, Motorola, Comcast, and Guggenheim. Kenyon has been published in the Wall Street Journal and Business Communication Review and has received Multiple Inc. 500 Company Awards for his companies. He has served on multiple Boards and is past President of Brodhead Preservation Association, Broadacres Land Trust, Habitat for Humanity, and NFTE (The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship). Expert level: Blockchain, cryptocurrency trader, consensus layer (mining), financial/product development, cloud and security certifications, communicator, fly fisherman, family guy.

Mike Burns
Board of Directors & Chief Investment Officer

Michael Burns has more than 20 years of experience across five start-ups and several institutional investors. He has been a partner and advisor at Gauss Ventures and Alara Capital, and a Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners and TL Ventures. He worked on many successful companies where he has been a co-founder, seed investor or growth investor.

As an entrepreneur, Mike has created five venture-backed start-ups. Mike ran business development and was a co-founder of Content Watch, the developer of the popular AI-driven Net Nanny parental controls. Mike was a founder and ran business development at Agere, a pioneer in network processor ASICs, which was acquired by Lucent Technologies and became a division of Lucent Microelectronics, which within a year went public as Agere Systems. Mike later was a seed investor and architect in spinning out the nascent power business of Agere Systems to form Ciclon Semiconductor whose energy efficient products powered Google and Facebook data center servers as well as the iPhone. Ciclon was acquired by Texas Instruments. Mike joined key members of the Ciclon team in founding and financing Ideal Semiconductor where he serves as chairman. Ideal Semi created a breakthrough in energy efficient technology serving EVs, data centers and renewables.

Mike was a founder and ran Business Development at data services pioneer Traffic.com, which disrupted the media and telematics markets. This technology was used to enable the first dynamic route guidance. It went public on the NASDAQ and was eventually acquired by Nokia. Mike worked for Lockheed Martin Naval Systems and was an officer in the US Navy. After the 9/11 attacks, Mike voluntarily served as an Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He was assigned to the US Special Operations Command and is a veteran of the global war on terror, including serving in Afghanistan.

Mike graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He has a B.S. degree in Finance from the Wharton School as well as B.S.E. and M.S.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering.

Joshua Robinson
VP of Technology

Joshua has 18 years of experience as an executive and consultant in the technology field and oil and gas industry. An early investor and proponent of blockchain technology, Joshua has a strong background in enterprise-grade infrastructure, mission-critical applications, complex system integrations along with mergers & acquisition.

Joshua currently works for Samuel Coraluzzo Co. as Director of Information Technology. Through a series of acquisitions and organic growth the company grew from 250 to 900 employees. He achieved company-wide 100% virtualization in 2012 and has implemented virtual technologies allowing the information system to match growth and to scale accordingly. Working closely with the managing partners, he has introduced and executed innovative ideas to ensure all systems keep pace with expansion and acquisitions.

Joshua’s prior experience as Technology Director for Advanced Information Technology, Inc. includes achieving 650% growth of company size by developing intuitive support structures, delivering hundreds of mission-critical projects for customers ranging from infrastructure and network design to custom application development.

Joshua works pro-bono for the Jefferson Pilots Volunteer Program, associated with the Jefferson Hospital of Neuroscience. He designed a system that allows Jefferson Pilots volunteers to schedule and manage resources within the organization. To reduce costs and increase availability of the application, he combined Amazon’s web infrastructure with open source technology.

Joshua has a strong passion for blockchain technology and a keen eye for identifying projects and teams with potential. Since discovering blockchain he has been an extremely active trader and has participated in numerous ICO’s.

Rob Magee
Board of Advisors

Mr. Magee is the former president and founder of Apostrophe Systems, which was acquired by Systech International in 2012.  Rob has over 20 years of experience as a highly technical and entrepreneurial software professional specializing in designing and building world-class business applications from the ground up.

Rob brings a wealth of experience in cyber-security, blockchain technology, systems integration, software development, cloud based technologies, information systems compliance and distributed application deployment to the HashWatt team. Mr. Magee holds a B.A. from the Temple University School of Media and Communication, is a certified Scaled Agile Framework Practitioner and OSCP certified security and penetration testing professional.

Jamie Selway
Advisor

Jamie Selway is an Advisor to HashWatt.  He is an investor, board member, and advisor to financial infrastructure projects innovating in both traditional and digital assets across a broad array of market functions.

Jamie was previously Head of Electronic Brokerage and US Head of Execution Services at Investment Technology Group (ITG), a global agency broker-dealer and trading technology provider.  During his tenure at ITG, he was responsible for the firm’s global electronic products, including the POSIT® crossing network, and the US electronic, single-stock, and portfolio execution businesses. In addition, he was a member of ITG’s Executive Committee and provided the firm’s clients with analysis of market structure and regulatory developments on a global basis.  Before joining ITG, Jamie was the Managing Director at White Cap Trading, an institutional agency brokerage that he co-founded in 2003.  He previously served as Chief Economist at Archipelago and worked in equity derivatives research at Goldman Sachs.

Jamie currently serves as Chairman of the National Organization of Investment Professionals and is a member of the Investment Traders Association of Philadelphia.  In the past, he has served as a Director of the BATS Exchange, as Associate Editor of the Journal of Trading, and as a member of SIFMA’s Equity Markets and Trading Committee, the IEX Quality of Markets Committee, the Nasdaq Quality of Markets Committee, and the NYSE Euronext Market Structure Advisory Committee.  A widely respected expert on electronic trading and market structure, Jamie has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and is frequently quoted in the media.