Tom Trowbridge is an entrepreneur and business builder; he is a co-founder of Fluence Labs, is a board member of Stronghold Digital Mining (NASDAQ: SDIG) and was President of Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) from inception. Tom is an advocate for decentralized systems and distributed ledger/blockchain technology and believes these open source tools provide the best opportunity to build fairer, more transparent, and higher-functioning societies, government, and business ecosystems. He is passionate about driving education regarding blockchain, Bitcoin and the great promise of distributed systems.