Bruce Fenton is the Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation, the largest and oldest Bitcoin non-profit group. The Bitcoin Foundation focuses on advocacy, education, reducing regulation and helping core development and has over 20 global chapters. Bruce is also an investor, consultant and advisor in the Bitcoin space, founder of the Bitcoin Association and is the organizer of the Dubai Bitcoin Conference and the Satoshi Roundtable retreat.

Bruce is a signer of the Free State Project and an active activist for freedom, free markets and police accountability. He is a vocal critic of regulation in bitcoin and technology and a proponent of voluntarism.

He is an Internet pioneer and the founder of Atlantic Financial which, in 1994, became the first full-service investment firm to use the Internet. Prior to Atlantic Financial, Bruce was with Morgan Stanley and specialized in emerging technologies and emerging markets. He is also Managing Director of a company which focuses on emerging markets, economic, Bitcoin and tech consulting.

Bruce has completed over $4.5 billion in transactions and served as a consultant to large investment funds, high net worth individuals and families. Bruce served as an advisor to one of the world’s largest charitable organizations for Gulf engagement. Bruce travels extensively and has lived in the US, the Middle East and Asia. He is has spoken at NH Free State Forum, Inside Bitcoins, Coin Congress, the Isle of Man Bitcoin Conference, the Texas Bitcoin Conference, MIT Enterprise Forum, Tony Robbins Wealth Mastery, the Global Competitiveness Forum Saudi Arabia and other major events and has been interviewed by the Wall St. Journal, CNBC, Investor’s Business Daily and others.