Leah Wald

Abaxx Technologies is building Smarter Markets: markets empowered by better tools, better benchmarks, and better technology to drive market-based solutions to the biggest challenges we face as a society, including the energy transition. Abaxx Exchange delivers the market infrastructure critical to the shift toward an electrified, low-carbon economy through centrally-cleared, physically-deliverable futures contracts in LNG, carbon, battery materials, and precious metals, meeting the commercial needs of today’s commodity markets and establishing the next generation of global benchmarks. Abaxx Spot modernizes physical gold trading through a physically-backed gold pool in Singapore. As the first instance of a co-located spot and futures market for gold, Abaxx Spot enables secure electronic transactions, efficient OTC transfers, and is designed to support physical delivery for Abaxx Exchange’s physically-deliverable gold futures contract, providing integrated infrastructure to deliver smarter gold markets.

Advisor and Selection Committee member for UC Berkeley’s global startup accelerator and $85m venture fund. Currently advising blockchain startups.

Built North America's first Solana treasury and staking company from a dormant holding company — delivering a 2,336% increase in stock performance and growing market cap from CAD $17M to nearly CAD $1B within the first five months of tenure as CEO. -Created an entirely new public market category — invented and commercialized the DAT++ model (treasury holdings + infrastructure revenue), the first dual-engine digital asset company structure to achieve profitability and Nasdaq listing -Executed cross-listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (CSE: HODL | NASDAQ: STKE) on September 9, 2025 — the exchange's highest listing tier, requiring SEC registration via Form 40-F, minimum market value thresholds, full audit compliance, and corporate governance standards -Selected by ARK Invest as exclusive Solana staking provider for their Digital Asset Revolutions Fund -Grew the Solana treasury from $0 to 435,064 SOL (~CAD $144M) and total company assets to CAD $164M, driving full-year revenue to CAD $14.5M — up 36.7% YoY, with validator rewards scaling from $nil to CAD $5.4M in a single fiscal year -Secured over $555M USD in institutional financing across three facilities: $500M convertible note with ATW Partners, $30M from ParaFi Capital, and $25M from strategic investors — while completing three strategic acquisitions (Cogent, Orangefin, Laine) to build vertically integrated Solana infrastructure -Scaled the validator network to CAD $1.24B+ in delegated SOL serving 15,000+ unique wallets; achieved SOC 1, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 compliance to meet enterprise institutional standards https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/279261/SOL-Strategies-Reports-Financial-Results-for-Fiscal-Year-Ended-September-30-2025

SOL Strategies (CSE: HODL | Nasdaq: STKE) is a publicly traded Canadian company focused exclusively on the Solana ecosystem.

(Acquired in 2024) Valkyrie Investments is a top-tier financial services firm that bridges the gap between traditional finance and the rapidly evolving digital asset industry. Based in Nashville, our team boasts a wealth of technical expertise in the blockchain economy and a track record of successfully launching investment vehicles across conventional markets including a series of cryptocurrency trusts, SMAs, hedge funds, and ETFs exceeding $1.3bln AUM. Valkyrie Funds LLC, the investment advisory business of Valkyrie Investments Inc. was acquired by CoinShares (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; USOTCQX: CNSRF) on March 12th 2024. When sold, the ETF suite had $530m AUM. Abra Capital Management acquired Valkyrie’s private Trusts in July 2024. When sold, the Trusts had $71m AUM.

Wrote the column "Tales From the Front Lines of Female Entrepreneurship". One of the inaugural writers for Women@Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/leahwald/

Headquartered in Princeton, NJ with satellite offices in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Washington, DC, Lucid Investment Strategies LLC is a boutique asset management and financial consulting firm utilizing its proprietary investment processes which it has used for 35 institutional defined benefit and defined contribution clients and over 500 retirement accounts as well as 3,000 trust clients. At Lucid Investments, Leah served as a Partner, where she launched and ran their bitcoin investment arm and consulting business. www.lucidfunds.com

Veterati is a digital platform for veterans & military spouses to access mentorship-on-demand from successful professionals across the nation. Since more than 80% of jobs are unpublished and exist solely within personal networks, Veterati focuses on mentorship as a primary means to discovering career options and securing real jobs. Our mission is to create mentorship conversations between 1.5 million transitioning veterans to the 100 million Americans currently employed across America to secure meaningful post-military careers for our veterans.

The Clearing, Inc. is a management consulting firm specializing in strategy, organizational change management, program design and implementation, and strategic communication. We help private and public sector organizations anticipate, respond to, and adapt to dynamic changes in the marketplace. The Clearing provides clients with management consulting in three core service areas: ▪ Strategy and Operations Consulting ▪ Executive Advisory Services ▪ Stakeholder Engagement and Strategic Communication www.theclearing.com

Non-profit organization engaged in the design and implementation of growth strategies for social enterprises in developing countries. Served as one of six team members in IMAGO’s pilot advisory with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a two-million-member women’s labor union of poor, self-employed women workers.

Reported directly to the CEO to develop macro investment strategies for the world’s top performing asset managers specializing in East Asian global macro and value equity strategies. Scanned TOPIX, KOSPI, JCI, SET and SSE equities across industry groups to identify favorable trades and promising companies for M&A. https://www.vitalfinancial.net/

Honors Thesis: "Policy Significance for the Goat Herder," which examined and evaluated the Government of Mongolia's economic policies towards its cashmere industry.

Was selected as the US representative to study conflict management and political economics masters degree courses through Georgetown University's International Institute of Political and Economic Studies (IIPES) in Crete. Awarded an academic scholarship.