Renowned global investor Frank Holmes leads the HIVE board of directors, contributing to the company's vision and strategy. Frank is chief executive and chief investment officer at U.S. Global Investors, a leading mutual fund and asset management firm. Frank is a much sought after keynote speaker at international investment conferences and a regular guest in business media. His Frank Talk CEO Blog is one of the most widely read in finance.

David St-Onge has a degree in computer science and started his career as a developer in 2005. In 2016, he became the Technical Director of a software development company. In early 2018, a colleague introduced him to the world of Bitcoin and blockchains. Since then, he has been devouring every book he could find on the subject, following influential "Bitcoin Twitter" personalities on a daily basis, and collecting dozens of articles on the subject. After contributing to the popularization of Bitcoin in the French-speaking world, David now brings us a translated version of his beginner-friendly guide to understanding Bitcoin entitled Bitcoin: Everything you need to know.

Daniel Foch is a real estate broker, working in the real estate industry for over 15 years with a variety of notable organizations such as REIT, CBRE and Hydro One. Daniel and his team have transacted over $250M in real estate across a variety of asset classes.

During his academic career, Daniel was an active instructor, contributor and researcher in the University of Guelph’s Real Estate Faculty, founder of The University's International URECC event, and was awarded for affordable housing innovation by CMHC & The University of Guelph during his tenure at the university.

Daniel is a regular contributor in the Canadian media as one of the most trusted, unbiased and balanced sources of real estate insight in Canada. As a result, he has been featured as a real estate expert in The Wall Street Journal, CBC, BNN Bloomberg, The Globe and Mail, among others. Daniel has built a captive audience of over 100,000 real estate investors across multiple social media platforms by providing primary research and market analysis.

“I am Daniel Foch, and I am RARE.”

Ben is host of the BTC Sessions - the most popular resource for Bitcoin education on YouTube. His focus is on practical knowledge - including wallets, hardware security, nodes, lightning and much more. Since 2016 Ben's channel has amassed a following of 75,000 subscribers, 100,000 followers on Twitter, and over 7.2 million views across all his content. He is a regular speaker at conferences in countries around the globe. When Ben isn't making online content, he can be found hosting in-person workshops and digital 1-on-1 education sessions.

Tom & Nick Karadza quit their jobs in software sales at Oracle Corporation to start Rock Star Real Estate Inc. in 2008. They were frustrated with their corporate lives and found that the income properties that they bought in their early twenties were producing better personal financial gains than their corporate incomes. Rock Star Real Estate was launched to work specifically with Canadians who wanted to add investment real estate to their asset base and didn't know who to turn to for education and guidance. Today Rock Star has helped thousands of investors across the Greater Toronto and Golden Horseshoe Area, worked on billions of dollars of investment properties and the Rock Star team has grown to over 60 people in their Oakville, Ontario offices. They host a podcast called, The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, where they focus on topics like real estate, interest rates, central banking, Bitcoin, health, fitness and more. You can find them at www.RockStarInnerCircle.com

Jesse Berger spent over 10 years working with large financial institutions in Canada, including roles in retail banking, investment advisory, management consulting, and market research. He graduated from McGill University in 2006 having studied economics and philosophy, and he received his MBA from Ryerson University in 2015. In 2018, he left the corporate world to pursue a career in Bitcoin, and in 2020 he published Magic Internet Money: A Book About Bitcoin. He is currently an independent consultant based in Toronto.

Eric Yakes graduated with a double major in finance & economics from Creighton University and 3 years later earned my CFA charter. He began his career at FTI Consulting in their Corporate Finance and Restructuring group for the TMT industry and then moved to Lion Equity Partners, a distressed buyout private equity fund.
All the while he intently followed Bitcoin, and its development eventually led him to author the book: The 7th Property: Bitcoin and the Monetary Revolution. He is currently forming a bitcoin focused venture capital fund.

The CEO and Founder of Bull Bitcoin Francis Pouliot is a full-time Bitcoin entrepreneur, researcher and industry spokesperson since 2013. He is a builder of financial software and services for Bitcoin. Francis defines himself as Cypherpunk Bitcoin Maximalist, formerly free-market economist.

Jack has been a product manager at a bank for the past 7 years. After going down the rabbit hole over the past 3 years, he has been pivoting his career towards building in Bitcoin. He's currently the product manager for the VLS open source project and helping to launch the Bitcoin Product Community.