Samir Tabar
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| Born | June 12, 1972 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canada |
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Samir Tabar (born 12 June 1972) is a Canadian crypto pioneer, entrepreneur, public speaker, former lawyer, and a strong environmental advocate in the crypto space.[1] He currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Bit Digital, a NASDAQ-listed bitcoin mining company, as a Managing Director of Centerboard Securities, a New York-based capital advisory firm, and as a Senior Associate at Schulte Roth & Zabel.[2][3]
Tabar is a strong proponent of sustainability in the sector and is credited for changing his company's reliance on carbon by switching to a solar power and hydropower model by moving 40,000 mining machines from China to America.[4]
Tabar is the author of the book Mission Matters and was the former editor of Columbia Business Law Journal. He also contributed to many news publications and is a former editor of the Columbia Business Law Journal.[5] Tabar, for his exceptional stride in the tech as well as the crypto industry, has been featured in multiple international media outlets, including GQ Magazine, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and The Ritz Herald, among others. [6]
Early life and education
Tabar was born on 12 June 1972. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Oxford University and a Master of Law Degree from Columbia University.[7]
Career
Tabar started his career in 2001 as an attorney for a world-renowned Wall Street law firm - Skadden where he worked for over two years. In 2003, he was appointed as a managing director and co-head of industrial marketing strategy at SPARX Group, one of the largest independent fund managers in the Asia Pacific.[8]
After spending over eight years with SPARX, Tabar joined Merril Lynch, where he served as a director and head of capital strategy for two years. In 2014 he became a partner at FullCycle, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles known for investing in tech companies that offer solutions for the climate crisis while generating handsome ROIs for investors.[9]
In 2017, Tabar co-founded Fluidity, a New York-based fintech company that has successfully built Blockchain products such as the popular decentralized exchange AirSwap under his guidance. The company even became a subject of a 10-page study by Harvard Business School but was eventually sold to Consensys.[10]
After Fluidity was sold, Tabar became a Managing Director for Centerboard Securities, a prolific advisory firm known for helping companies with institutional capital raising for private equity, private credit, venture capital, and select corporate private placements. In 2021 he also became a CSO for Bit Digital, Inc., one of the leading bitcoin mining companies in the US.[11]
In the media
References
- ↑ "Sam Tabar, Bit Digital Inc: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ "Bit Digital's CSO Samir Tabar to Speak at Bitcoin 2022 Conference". Bit Digital. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ Editors, Men's Journal. "How Canadian Entrepreneur Samir Tabar Is Paving the Way for Sustainable Crypto Mining". Men's Journal. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
{{cite web}}:|last1=has generic name (help) - ↑ Malik, Saqib (31 March 2022). "Entrepreneur Samir Tabar drives the evolution of environmentally responsible crypto". Digital Journal. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ "A renegade mind — how Samir Tabar transformed an industry". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ "Samir Tabar Leads Bit Digital's Transition to Greener Crypto Mining". Flaunt Magazine. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ "Columbia Business Law Review". cblr.columbia.edu. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ Gatero, Stanley (17 May 2022). "How Samir Tabar Took His Experience to Help Change the Finance Industry". Disrupt. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ "Fluidity: The Tokenization of Real Estate Assets - Case - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School". www.hbs.edu. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ "why-bit-digital-is-expanding-into-canada". nasdaq. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ↑ Limited, Bangkok Post Public Company. "From Wall Street to Asia… Why Samir Tabar took his experience in finance to better the industry". Bangkok Post. Retrieved 10 February 2023.