Samir Tabar
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| Born | June 12, 1972 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | Canada |
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| Organization | Bit Digital (CEO) |
| Website | bit-digital |
Samir Tabar (born June 12, 1972), also known as Sam Tabar, is a Canadian businessman[1] and former lawyer known for his work in the technology sector.[2] He is co-founder and chief executive officer of WhiteFiber and Bit Digital, both Nasdaq-listed companies. Tabar also co-founded Fluidity, which developed AirSwap, a decentralized trading platform.[3] He was head of Capital Strategy at Bank of America, and he started his career as an attorney in New York at Skadden, Arps. In 2025, Tabar co-founded WhiteFiber, Inc., an AI compute and data-center infrastructure company, and brought the company public on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker WYFI while simultaneously serving as chief executive officer of Bit Digital (Nasdaq: BTBT).[4]
Early life and education
Tabar was born to a French-Canadian mother and a Nazarene father. He was born and raised in Canada. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in 2000 and his law degree from Columbia University School of Law in 2001. At Columbia, he was editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. Tabar is a member of the New York State Bar.
Career
After completing his education, Tabar joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City as an associate advising clients on mergers and acquisitions.[5][6]
In 2004, he moved to Japan to join Sparx Group, a Japanese alternative asset manager, in 2004. He became co-head of business development and helped manage global marketing and investor relations helping to raise $1.2 billion in assets under management.[7]
In 2011, Tabar joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong as Head of Capital Strategy for the Asia-Pacific region.[8][9]
In 2017, Tabar co-founded Fluidity, which created the decentralized exchange AirSwap.[10] The company was acquired by Consensys in 2020.
Tabar then led Bit Digital, a Nasdaq-listed public company, as chief strategy officer in 2021 and later became chief executive officer and was given an honorary co-founder title due to his contributions growing the business.[11]
Specifically, while CEO and Co Founder of Bit Digital, Tabar has promoted sustainability by significantly increasing the company's carbon-free levels. Additionally, he has been instrumental in relocating Bit Digital’s 40,000 mining machines from China to the United States. He also completely transformed the company from mining to a digital assets treasury company.[12]
While CEO of Bit Digital, Tabar co-founded WhiteFiber, Inc., a carve-out of Bit Digital’s high-performance computing and AI infrastructure business. Tabar was appointed chief executive officer of WhiteFiber and brought the company public on the Nasdaq Capital Market (ticker: WYFI) in 2025, with Bit Digital retaining a controlling ownership stake following the IPO.[13]
WhiteFiber provides AI/HPC data-center infrastructure and GPU cloud services, including high-density colocation with direct-liquid-cooling, tailored racks, and cross-data-center dark-fiber connectivity; it markets “GPU as a service” for AI training and inference workloads.
Personal life
Tabar resides in Europe.
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References
- ↑ "Samir Tabar". Samir Tabar. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "Samir Tabar | CoinDesk Author". www.coindesk.com. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "It's getting harder to be a Bitcoin miner, and that suits Samir Tabar just fine". www.gq.co.za. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "Articles by Sam Tabar". TheStreet Crypto: Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news, advice, analysis and more. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "Sam Tabar". CypherHunter. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "How Samir Tabar Took His Experience to Help Change the Finance Industry". Disrupt. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "How an old-school lawyer and financier is rehabilitating a controversial industry, but with mixed results". Fast Company. 29 June 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "A renegade mind — how Samir Tabar transformed an industry". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "Bit Digital's CSO Samir Tabar to Speak at Bitcoin 2022 Conference". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "Fluidity's Co-Founder Samir Tabar Joins the Advisory Board of Dotqii". accesswire.com. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ Correspondent, D. C. (19 June 2019). "The sweet smell of victory is an encouraging feeling, says Samir Victor Tabar". www.deccanchronicle.com. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ "How Canadian Entrepreneur Samir Tabar Is Paving the Way for Sustainable Crypto Mining". Men's Journal. 19 September 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ↑ 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 19 June 2024.