Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. Appoints Board of Directors
August 09, 2021 at 08:00 am EDT
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Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. has appointed Sarita James and Said Ouissal to its board of directors, effective immediately. As a result, Marathon’s board of directors now consists of seven directors, including five independent directors and two inside directors. Sarita James is the CEO of Embark, a leading college admissions software company, who brings to Marathon unique expertise in technology, finance, and government affairs. Said Ouissal brings to Marathon extensive experience in senior leadership positions across IP networking (routing, switching, and security), telecommunications, cloud, and mobile broadband. Currently, Said Ouissal is the CEO and founder of ZEDEDA.
Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. is a digital asset technology company, which is focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Company is engaged in owning and operating bitcoin mining facilities or data centers, selling proprietary software or technology to third parties operating in the Bitcoin ecosystem, offering advisory and consulting services to support bitcoin mining ventures in domestic and international jurisdictions, and generating electricity from renewable energy resources or methane gas capture to power bitcoin mining projects. Its business is also active in Bitcoin-related projects related to the technological development of immersion, hardware, firmware, mining pools and side chains that use the blockchain cryptography. It operates approximately 210,000 mining rigs globally, with an installed and energized hash rate of approximately 25.2 and 24.7 exahashes per second, respectively. The Company has mined 12,852 bitcoins.
MARATHON DIGITAL HOLDINGS, INC. 
