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Jan 2025
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#408: Gregg Bell, CBO of HBAR Foundation...

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Gregg Bell currently serves as Chief Business Officer at The HBAR Foundation, the venture arm of the Hedera ecosystem. Previously, he was the Head of Growth at Binance.US overseeing several business lines. Before that, he co-founded and led the asset management business at A3 Financial Investments (NASDAQ listed fund) and the crypto lending business at Salt Blockchain, where he served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Gregg’s entrepreneurial and investment experience spans over 15 years, and bridges traditional finance and digital markets, with roles at two multi-billion dollar hedge funds. At ArrowMark Partners, his responsibilities included investment analysis and trading. He began his career at the hedge fund Silver Point Capital. He also spent a tenure on Wall Street as a trader and investment banker at the Royal Bank of Scotland. Gregg holds a B.S. from the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering. Gregg’s philanthropic activities include founding a non-profit charitable foundation in 2009 which has funded the construction of several elementary schools.

In this conversation, we discuss:
- HBAR’s 2024 growth and catalysts behind the 400% gain
- Creating new investment vehicles
- RWA tokenization
- Enormous global brands building on and working with HBAR
- Hedera is the most used public protocol
- Canary Capital HBAR Trust and the recent HBAR ETF filing
- Hedera’s DLT
- Asset Tokenization Studio
- Creating the trust layer of the internet
- The future of AI and crypto
- Working at Binance US and stories of working with CZ

HBAR Foundation
Website: www.hbarfoundation.org
X: @HBAR_foundation
Telegram: t.me/HBAR_foundation

Gregg Bell
X: @GregoryLBell
LinkedIn: Gregg Bell

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