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Ivan Brightly is Angel Investor, Bitcoin Trader. Formerly Chief Information Security Officer at Galaxy Digital. He has been a miner, investor, advisor, and founder in the cryptographic digital assets space since 2012. Prior to joining the firm, Ivan co-founded SolidX Partners in 2014, which offered synthetic institutional access to bitcoin through a total return swap and pursued an SEC-registered physically backed bitcoin ETF. Prior to SolidX, he was at the foreign currency trading firm FXCM, where he served as Chief Information Officer. As CIO for FXCM, he was responsible for the global technology needs of the firm. He also is a Certified Bitcoin Professional as deemed by C4 and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Specialties: Crypto Assets, Bitcoin, Monero, Virtualization, Security, storage, ITIL, FX Trading, Trading Systems
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