CEO departure
Company: Hut 8
The claim, verbatim
Jaime Leverton left her role as CEO of Hut 8 in 2024 after the board decided to take a different strategic direction.
Source (primary)
Former Hut 8 CEO lands at Fortitude Mining as Zcash miner rides high into Nasdaq listing - Cryptopolitan (-, news_article)
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Quote: “She left her role as CEO at Hut 8 in 2024 after the board decided to take a different strategic direction.”
How we checked this
Checked on September 24, 2026. The cited source supports every part of this claim.
The article names Jaime Leverton as the former Hut 8 CEO and says the CEO left the role in 2024 after the board decided to take a different strategic direction.
Confirmed in the source:
- Jaime Leverton was CEO of Hut 8
- Jaime Leverton left the Hut 8 CEO role in 2024
- The departure followed the board's decision to take a different strategic direction
What we did: Read our cached copy of the publisher (https://www.cryptopolitan.com/former-hut-8-ceo-fortitude-mining-zcash/) in full (9,250 characters, retrieved September 20, 2026) and checked each assertion in the claim against it.
Additional evidence
confirms Former Hut 8 CEO lands at Fortitude Mining as Zcash miner rides high into Nasdaq listing - Cryptopolitan
Quote: “She left her role as CEO at Hut 8 in 2024 after the board decided to take a different strategic direction.”