New Bitcoin Foundation Director Claasen ‘Exactly What Is Needed’
The Bitcoin Foundation has “unanimously” voted for Llew Claasen to be its new Executive Director, replacing the incumbent Bruce Fenton. Foundation ‘In a Great Position’. Claasen’s appointment was agreed at a vote June 14, the Foundation said in a press release issued today. Members of the board unanimously voted for Claasen to take on the role, with the....
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South Africa’s Llew Claasen was appointed as the new Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation because they think he has the skill that is needed now to move the Foundation forward. He said that there is an amazing opportunity for the organization to help the Bitcoin ecosystem. In this interview, he sheds light on his appointment and the organisation he leads. CoinTelegraph: Did your appointment as the executive director of Bitcoin Foundation come as a surprise? Llew Claasen: Yes! I was in Italy on vacation at the time that the Board approved my appointment and within days I was on a....
The appointment of South Africa’s Llew Claasen as the new Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation has been announced at the Blockchain Training Conference / DEVCORE in Canada. Claasen is a venture capitalist and Managing Partner at Newtown Partners in Cape Town, and takes over from Bruce Fenton effective July 1. Llew Claasen is a technology startup go-to-market strategist with expertise in designing, building, merchandising and marketing online and mobile software products and services (B2B, B2C, B2B2C). Fenton says: “After an extensive search, I'm happy to say that the Bitcoin....
Over a year after being voted in as the executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, Bruce Fenton is closing his term, with a relatively unknown South African venture capitalist, Llew Claasen, primed to take over. As a bitcoin advocacy group and trade organization, the Bitcoin Foundation will see a new executive director in Llew Claasen, a Cape Town-based venture capitalist. The South African is a managing partner at Newton Partners, a venture capital firm and investor with a focus on internet and mobile technology. Claasen will commence duties as executive director on July 1, after being....
Bitcoin’s oldest trade organization has voted in a new executive director. Weeks after outgoing executive director Bruce Fenton notified the board his term was nearing conclusion (rumors suggested he had resigned), the Bitcoin Foundation has named Llew Claasen to the position. A relative unknown in the bitcoin and wider blockchain community, Claasen is a venture capitalist from Cape Town, South Africa and the managing partner of Newtown Partners, who primarily has a background in online and mobile infrastructure. Fenton will remain a board member of the Bitcoin Foundation. The vote....
Bitcoin may still be less popular in parts of Africa but it presents itself as an alternative to several challenges facing the region that has been dubbed the mobile-led continent, according to Llew Claasen, Executive DIrector of Bitcoin Foundation. Claasen believes that the current levels of Bitcoin adoption in Africa reflect where Bitcoin is on its technology adoption curve globally and the continent shouldn’t be seen as being behind. “Africa has many challenges where Bitcoin offers a viable alternative and this strong need may see Africa taking more than it's fair share of the global....