This appointment follows the Company's acquisition of TeraGo
and is the latest in a series of strategic hires supporting Hut 8's
advancements in diversification and scaling
TORONTO, Feb. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hut 8 Mining
Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of
North America's largest,
innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers, supporting open
and decentralized systems since 2018, is pleased to announce the
appointment of Josh Rayner to the
new role of Vice President, Sales, effective February 21, 2022. Mr. Rayner joins Hut 8 to lead
sales with a focus on the Company's recently acquired data center
and managed services business under the direction of CEO
Jaime Leverton.
Mr. Rayner is an experienced sales leader who brings technical
knowledge and market expertise in data centers to Hut 8's team.
Prior to joining Hut 8, Mr. Rayner served as Director of Sales at
Beanfield Metroconnect where he led a high performing sales
team.
"We are excited to welcome Josh to our team to help us
strengthen our existing position and expand our new customer base,"
said Jaime Leverton, Chief Executive
Officer of Hut 8. "As both a leader with diverse experience in the
data center realm and a passionate champion of digital assets, Josh
is well positioned to support our continued momentum and will be an
asset to our team."
Over the last decade, Mr. Rayner has worked in a number of roles
including sales, management, and data center operations within the
technology sector.
"I am thrilled to be joining the passionate team at Hut 8. The
rapid growth of Hut 8 and the digital asset space is something I'm
excited to contribute to," said Mr. Rayner. "I look forward to
continuing that trend and helping Hut 8 expand its position as a
leading facilitator of digital assets and web 3.0."
About the Company:
Hut 8 is one of North America's
largest innovation-focused digital asset miners, led by a team of
business-building technologists, bullish on bitcoin, blockchain,
web 3.0 and bridging the nascent and traditional high performance
computing worlds. With two digital asset mining sites located in
Southern Alberta and a third site
in North Bay, Ontario, all located
in Canada, Hut 8 has one of the
highest capacity rates in the industry and one of the highest
inventories of self-mined Bitcoin of any crypto miner or
publicly-traded company globally. With 36,000 square feet of
geo-diverse data center space and cloud capacity connected to
electrical grids powered by significant renewables and
emission-free resources, Hut 8 is revolutionizing conventional
assets to create the first hybrid data center model that serves
both the traditional high performance compute (web 2.0) and nascent
digital asset computing sectors, blockchain gaming, and web 3.0.
Hut 8 was the first Canadian digital asset miner to list on the
Nasdaq Global Select composite index and the first blockchain
company to be added to the S&P/TSX Composite Index in 2021. Hut
8's team of business building technologists are believers in
decentralized systems, stewards of powerful industry-leading
solutions, and drivers of innovation in digital asset mining and
high-performance computing, with a focus on ESG alignment. Through
innovation, imagination, and passion, Hut 8 is helping to define
the digital asset revolution to create value and positive impacts
for its shareholders and generations to come.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward–Looking
Information
This press release includes "forward-looking information" and
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian
securities laws and United States
securities laws, respectively (collectively, "forward-looking
information"). All information, other than statements of historical
facts, included in this press release that address activities,
events or developments that the Company expects or anticipates will
or may occur in the future, including such things as future
business strategy, competitive strengths, goals, expansion and
growth of the Company's businesses, operations, plans and other
such matters is forward-looking information. Forward-looking
information is often identified by the words "may", "would",
"could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "allow",
"believe", "estimate", "expect", "predict", "can", "might",
"potential", "predict", "project", "is designed to", "likely" or
similar expressions and includes, among others, statements
regarding management's expectations, expertise, projections,
estimates or characterizations of future events or circumstances,
the Company's growing and diverse leadership team, the Company's
ability to strengthen its existing position and expand its new
customer base, the Company's ability to grow and expand its
position as a leading facilitator of digital assets and web 3.0, ,
and the Company's ability to continue its momentum
within the data center and managed services realms.
Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of
opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered
reasonable by Hut 8 as of the date of this press release, are
subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and
other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity,
performance or achievements to be materially different from those
expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including
that the anticipated timing for completion of the construction and
development activities at the Company's third mining site in
North Bay, Ontario will be further
delayed as a result of global supply chain impacts, the Company's
ability to make interest payments on any drawn portions of loan
with Trinity Capital, the impact of general economic conditions on
the Company, industry conditions, currency fluctuations, taxation,
regulation, changes in tax or other legislation, competition from
other industry participants, the lack of availability of qualified
personnel or management, stock market volatility, political and
geopolitical instability and the Company's ability to access
sufficient capital from internal and external sources. The
foregoing and other risks are described in greater detail in the
"Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Information Form
dated March 25, 2021, which is
available on www.sedar.com. These factors are not intended to
represent a complete list of the factors that could affect Hut 8;
however, these factors should be considered carefully, and you
should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking information.
There can be no assurance that such estimates and assumptions will
prove to be correct. The forward-looking information contained in
this press release are made as of the date of this press release,
and Hut 8 expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter
statements containing any forward-looking information, or the
factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new
information, future events or circumstances, or otherwise, except
as required by law. New factors emerge from time to time, and
it is not possible for Hut 8 to predict all of these factors or to
assess in advance the impact of each such factor on Hut 8's
business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of
factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those
contained in any forward-looking information. The forward-looking
information contained in this press release is expressly qualified
by this cautionary statement.
Related Links: www.hut8mining.com
Media Contact: Hut 8, dea.masottipayne@northstrategic.com
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