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Jason is a proven operations specialist with more than 20 years of highly successful experience. He is a motivated, passionate, and efficient entrepreneur who has owned and operated several successful multimillion dollar privately held corporations. Jason has wide-ranging and extensive experience related to operations management, service agreement fulfillment, procurement and disposition contracts (including international importing/exporting), personnel optimization, and customer relationship management. With a keen ability to connect with people, Jason is able to build and maintain extremely strong relationships with vendors, suppliers, and clients alike.
In 2018, Jason began meticulously researching cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. Shortly thereafter, he commenced trading Bitcoin and other innovative alternative cryptocurrencies with excellent, prolonged success rates. After discovering and studying mining, he helped co-found Modern Mining.
Jason is an ardent supporter of lean operations and of utilizing every dollar judiciously, and he believes these items will be critical to the long-term success of Modern Mining.
In his spare time, he enjoys camping with his family, volunteering as a minor hockey coach and evaluator, and spending meaningful time with friends.
Sebastian is a lawyerpreneur with 23 years of business operation, legal, and private company investment experience.
In 1999, Sebastian launched his first IT company and has been involved in the tech sector ever since. In 2017, Sebastian was involved in the Alberta Investor Tax Credit program and he structured the setup of a venture capital fund. In 2018, Sebastian went down the crypto rabbit hole and hasn’t come up for air since. He now dedicates a significant portion of his life to understanding the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies and their potential in a decentralized world.
In his legal career, Sebastian was the Calgary tax lead partner for a large multinational law firm and later was the lead partner in the successful launch of the Calgary business law practice for a Big-4 accounting firm. In that time, he received a number of legal distinctions, including awards as an Acritas Star in 2017, 2018 and 2020, a Lexology, Client Choice Awards, Top Lawyer in 2018, Lexpert, US/Canada Cross Border, Corporate Lawyer to Watch in 2016, and Lexpert, Rising Star, Leading Lawyer Under 40 in 2015. The common denominators in the client centric awards (Acritas and Lexology) are Sebastian’s pragmatic business-centric approach to the provision of legal advice and his value as a trusted advisor.
In his spare time, Sebastian can be found watching football on Sundays , playing with his kids, and learning everything he can about Bitcoin.
Ryan is a serial entrepreneur who brings over 25 years of business and investment experience to the Modern Mining team.
Ryan is a former dentist who sold his practice in 2006 to pursue his interest in real estate. He was actively involved in several land and building development projects in the Calgary area during the 1990s and 2000s.
The credit crisis in 2009 brought many challenges to the world of real estate. To address the challenges in the market, Ryan co-founded Alberta Foreclosure Stoppers in 2011, a company which continues to provide assistance to Alberta homeowners in financial distress to this day.
In 2016, Ryan took an interest in the crypto markets as a way to diversify away from real estate and the stock markets. He has extensive experience across a wide variety of crypto projects and protocols and a keen interest in the developing decentralized finance (DeFi) space.
In his spare time, Ryan enjoys hiking and scrambling mountains in the summer and backcountry skiing in the winter. He is also a devoted father who enjoys spending time with his busy blended family of 4 kids and his longtime girlfriend Shauna.
Shawn is an accomplished management consultant and software implementation specialist with over a decade of comprehensive experience. He is a creative, driven, and resilient problem-solver with strong project management skills and an innate ability to develop and execute innovative solutions within budget and on schedule.
In 2017, Shawn co-founded an agency providing blockchain-related services including community management, marketing, and initial coin offering (ICO) consulting; his team successfully provided services for several new blockchain developments and ICOs, including the world’s largest ICO by participant numbers at the time (115,000 participants, $40MM USD raised).
Since exiting the agency to pursue other crypto-related interests, he has been actively researching, mining, and trading cryptocurrencies, with a primary focus on Bitcoin, as well as on other innovative developments.
Above all else, Shawn believes honesty, integrity, and transparency are essential to the ongoing success of Modern Mining.
In his spare time, he can usually be found making memories with his wife and 2 young daughters, on the ice playing hockey, or researching cryptocurrency mining developments.