Anthony Dresch, founder of Korelya Capital, which led Bitfury's $80 million funding round, recently joined Bitfury's board of directors. And Bitfury's advisory board will now be chaired by Annette Nazareth, a former authorized representative of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Dresh has many years of experience in investment banking. Beginning in 1997, he was vice president of the investment department of Goldman Sachs, and then worked as managing director of the investment departments of UBS London and Morgan Stanley, where he supported M&A transactions and initial public offerings in Europe.
In 2016, he founded the Korelya fund, with assets estimated at €200 million. The fund's primary focus was on European technology startups, including a cryptocurrency wallet startup - Ledger.
Nazareth, an authorized representative of the SEC from 2005 to 2008, has been a partner at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP for ten years, where she leads office in Washington and heads the trading and markets department, advising clients on regulatory issues. On Bitfury's advisory board, she will provide financial markets expertise and monitor regulatory progress.
This fall, Bitfury is doing very well, in addition to funding of $80 million, in September it released a new Bitthury Clarke microchip and introduced a coffee machine capable of connecting to the Lightning network, Bitcoin's second-layer protocol.
According to coindesk.com
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