Meet our leadership.

Brendan Blumer
Chief Executive Officer
Steve Ellis
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Lubin
General Counsel

Brendan Blumer

Chief Executive Officer
Brendan was an early investor in blockchain and transitioned to full-time involvement in the space in 2016 when he met business partner Dan Larimer and they co-founded Block.one. Prior to this, Brendan founded okay.com, a collaborative data-sharing ecosystem for the Asia Pacific property market that has grown to be Hong Kong’s largest digital property agency. He has been building disruptive technology companies since 2001, when he started Gamecliff, a company that automated the valuation, purchase, and resale of in-game items in the world’s largest online video games.

Steve Ellis

Chief Financial Officer
Steve leads all aspects of financial control, planning and balance sheet management at Block.one, including the deployment and commitment of the company’s capital. Prior to joining the company, he was Executive General Manager, Investment Development and Finance Transformation at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, where he was responsible for managing the bank’s strategic investment portfolio, as well as other financial and risk management operations. He also spent time based in the Bank’s Hong Kong office where he held primary management responsibility for the commercial operations and regulatory relations of CBA’s consumer and small business banking businesses in India and Vietnam. Previous to Commonwealth Bank, he was in Investment Banking at Credit Suisse for a decade, having worked in Hong Kong, Australia, USA and New Zealand.

Michael Lubin

General Counsel

Michael oversees all Block.one’s legal, regulatory and compliance activities. Previously he served as the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Front Yard Residential Corporation (NYSE: RESI) where he oversaw the Company’s legal function, managing several billion dollars of public and private merger and acquisition transactions and corporate financings. In addition, Michael was responsible for Front Yard’s corporate governance, board and committee proceedings and public company reporting all in accordance with SEC, NYSE, and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Previous to Front Yard, Michael held a similar position as General Counsel and Senior Vice-President of Home Loan Servicing Solutions, Ltd. (NASDAQ: HLSS), a publicly listed specialty finance corporation. Prior to moving to the Cayman Islands, Michael held positions as legal counsel at Bell Canada Enterprises (TSX, NYSE: BCE) and as a corporate attorney at the law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, in Toronto, Ontario.

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