Leigh Travers
Mr. Leigh Travers serves as our Compensation Chair and member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Travers has enjoyed a 15-year career in the finance and crypto-asset industry including experience within public markets focusing on high-growth companies. He is the current CEO of InvestbyBit Pty Ltd (DBA Binance Australia), the fastest growing crypto-asset exchange in the region (since August 2021). Mr. Travers has served as a director since February 2021 of Rosherville Investment Group Ltd., an asset management group focused on a range of funds, including digital assets. He formerly served as CEO and director of the world’s first publicly traded crypto firm DigitalX Ltd., from August 2014 to August 2021. While Mr. Travers was at the helm, DigitalX achieved a number of milestones including winning Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Award, securing the first-ever public Company share subscription by way of Bitcoin, and becoming the first public Company to hold Bitcoin as a treasury position. Mr. Travers created Perth Blockchain Centre in December 2018, a tech and investment start-up hub, and worked with companies such as Vulcan Energy, HyprFire, and DigitalX before selling the Company lease in August 2021. From February 2015 to September 2020, Mr. Travers helped drive the responsible adoption of blockchain technology by industries and governments across Australia while serving as director, Chairman, and Treasurer of Australia’s blockchain industry body, Blockchain Australia Ltd. He was also responsible for creating an investment grade rated digital asset fund that was the second-best performing fund in Australia (Morningstar, 2021). Mr. Travers has provided technical, marketing, and investor services to several crypto start-ups which grew to achieve unicorn status, these include: Powerledger, SingularityNet, and Human Protocol.