James Crawford Chief Operating Officer
Company: Marathon Digital
What the later record shows
Not a promise: a reported event · happened January 1, 2022
The April 2023 statement reports amended employment terms that had already taken effect on January 1, 2022. Later proxies confirm Crawford as COO.
“James Crawford 47 March 1, 2013 Chief Operating Officer”
2023-06-12 · Marathon Digital PRE 14A filed 2023-06-13 View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
“Jim Crawford, Current Chief Operating Officer Ashu Swami, Chief Technology Officer”
2023-06-22 · Marathon Digital DEF 14A filed 2023-06-23 View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
Checked October 10, 2026 against filings, releases and reporting published after the claim was made. Quotes are verbatim from the linked documents.
The claim, verbatim
James Crawford appointed as Chief Operating Officer effective January 1, 2022, under two-year employment agreement with base salary of $300,000
Source (primary)
Marathon Digital 10-K/A filed 2023-04-28 (SEC EDGAR, sec_filing)
View cached copy (2026-09-13)Live source ↗
Quote: “Effective January 1, 2022, the Company agreed to amended terms and conditions of employment with Jim Crawford, which is to be memorialized in a new employment agreement. The Agreement has a term of two years and automatically renews for successive one year terms unless either party provides notice of nonrenewal at least 90 days prior to the end of the initial term or any renewal term. Mr. Crawford's annual base salary is $300,000”
How we checked this
Checked on October 11, 2026. The cited source supports part of this claim, but not all of it.
The filing confirms the two-year agreement and $300,000 salary effective January 1, 2022, but describes these as amended terms for an existing COO first appointed in 2013, not a new appointment.
Confirmed in the source:
- Effective January 1, 2022, Marathon agreed to amended employment terms with James Crawford
- Crawford's agreement has a two-year term
- Crawford's annual base salary is $300,000
We could not confirm this from the cited source:
- James Crawford was appointed Chief Operating Officer effective January 1, 2022 (the filing says he was first appointed on March 1, 2013; January 1, 2022 is only when amended employment terms took effect)
That does not mean it is false — only that this source does not establish it, as of the date above. If we find a source that settles it, we will re-check and update this page.
What we did: Read our cached copy of SEC EDGAR (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1507605/000149315223014714/form10-ka.htm) in full (81,182 characters, retrieved September 13, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Marathon Digital 10-K/A filed 2023-04-28
Quote: “Effective January 1, 2022, the Company agreed to amended terms and conditions of employment with Jim Crawford, which is to be memorialized in a new employment agreement. The Agreement has a term of two years and automatically renews for successive one year terms unless either party provides notice of nonrenewal at least 90 days prior to the end of the initial term or any renewal term. Mr. Crawford's annual base salary is $300,000”