Mike Silagadze

Mike Silagadze is the co-founder and CEO of ether.fi, a non-custodial Ethereum staking and restaking protocol that grew into one of the largest protocols on Ethereum and is now expanding into broader crypto banking products. Before moving into crypto full time he founded Top Hat in 2009, an education technology company he led as CEO for twelve years and grew to roughly 500 employees and $60 million in annual revenue before selling it in 2021. He holds a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, and after leaving Top Hat he ran a crypto hedge fund (Gadze Finance) and served as a venture partner at Ripple Ventures before starting ether.fi in late 2022.

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