Greg Beard is the Chief Executive Officer, President and Co-Chairman of Stronghold Digital Mining, a vertically-integrated crypto mining company based in Pennsylvania working to remediate the impacts of 19th and 20th-century coal mining in some of the most environmentally neglected regions of the United States.

Stronghold Digital Mining is the first crypto firm in the United States to actually IPO on the NASDAQ. That is it went through the front door of the SEC, helping to legitimize bitcoin’s place on Wall Street.  Stronghold ($SDIG) went public in October 2021. Through its environmentally-beneficial work in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Stronghold is an industry leader in creating environmentally-friendly bitcoin mining business models.

Prior to his time at Stronghold, Mr. Beard was the Global Head of Natural Resources, Senior Partner, member of the Management Committee and Senior Advisor at Apollo Global Management from 2010 to 2020. In such roles, Mr. Beard oversaw Apollo’s investment activities in the energy, metals and mining and agriculture sectors. Prior to his time at Apollo, Mr. Beard was a senior Managing Director at Riverstone Holdings, an energy, power and infrastructure-focused private equity firm. He began his career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, where he played an active role in energy-sector principal investment activities. The funds where Mr. Beard held these senior leadership positions have invested billions of dollars in natural resources related investments.