Hut 8 Mining Corp. Appoints Tanya Woods as General Counsel, Executive Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Effective February 1, 2021
January 26, 2021 at 09:07 am
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Hut 8 Mining Corp. announced the appointment of Tanya Woods as General Counsel, Executive Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, effective February 1, 2021. A key role in the company's transition, Ms. Woods joins a diverse and ambitious team, under the direction of newly appointed CEO Jaime Leverton, to help propel future success and growth. Prior to joining Hut 8, Ms. Woods completed two Masters of Laws including specialization in Technology Law and held senior level positions representing national and multinational organizations as a strategic advisor and legal counsel in the telecommunications, technology, sustainability and entertainment sectors for leading companies such as BCE Inc., Microsoft and Nintendo. She most recently served as founding Managing Director of Canada's first Chamber of Digital Commerce to advocate for and grow the country's blockchain ecosystem. Ms. Woods is a champion for Canada's digital innovation ecosystem domestically and globally and has represented the Government of Canada and industry stakeholders in global trade negotiations.
Hut 8 Corp. is a data mining company. The Company is a vertically integrated operator of large-scale energy infrastructure and bitcoin miner. The Company acquires, designs, builds, manages, and operates data centers that power compute-intensive workloads, such as bitcoin mining, high performance computing, and artificial intelligence (AI). The Company operates through four business segments: Digital Assets Mining, Managed Services, High Performance Computing-Colocation and Cloud, and Other. Its infrastructure portfolio includes about eighteen sites: nine Bitcoin mining, hosting, and Managed Services sites in Alberta, New York, Nebraska, and Texas, five high performance computing data centers in British Columbia and Ontario, and four power generation assets in Ontario. Its Managed Services business provides institutional partners such as digital asset mining site owners, governments, and data center developers an end-to-end partnership model for energy infrastructure development.