Michael Ho, age 32, serves as Chief Strategy Officer and Director of Hut 8 since the Business Combination, and as Chief Executive Officer of American Bitcoin since September 2025 (having served as Executive Chairman from March 2025). He was co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of USBTC from its inception in December 2020 through the Business Combination.
Ho is a serial entrepreneur with experience spanning digital assets and traditional trade sectors. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Vancouver Motorcars Ltd. (formerly Advant Automotive Inc.) from January 2012 to April 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer of MKH International Ltd. from July 2015 to December 2018, during which period he specialized in currencies, international trade, structured financings, and equity structuring. Ho has been active in digital asset mining since 2014 and beginning in 2017 established businesses procuring, managing, and selling turnkey digital asset mining facilities.
Biography extracted from Hut 8 DEF 14A filed 2026-04-28 View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗
Roles
Contiguous filings for the same role are collapsed into a single tenure span. Click a row to see the underlying filings.
| Company | Role | Tenure | Filings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hut 8 | Chief Strategy Officer, Director | 2025-11 → present (10mo) | 1 |
Compensation
| Year | Role as filed | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Other | Total | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Chief Strategy Officer | $490.0K | $980.0K | $119.74M | $10.7K | $121.22M | View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗ |
| 2024 | Chief Strategy Officer | $490.0K | $980.0K | $8.64M | $26.5K | $10.13M | View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗ |
| 2023 | Chief Strategy Officer | $271.5K | — | $5.69M | — | $5.96M | View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗ |
| 2022 | Chief Strategy Officer | $250.0K | — | $2.98M | $1.85M | $5.08M | View cached copy (2026-08-31)Live source ↗ |
As reported in the company's DEF 14A Summary Compensation Table (SEC Reg S-K Item 402(c)). Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values — what the award was worth on the day it was granted, not cash received and not what it is worth now. Every row here reconciles: its columns add up to the total the filing printed.
Insider transactions
Totals for this person
| Bucket | Invested (shares) | Invested (USD) | Divested (shares) | Divested (USD) | Net direction | Txns | Invested @ last price | Divested @ last price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All time | 1,011,578 | $0 | - | $0 | Flat | 2 | $94.63M | $0 |
| 2025 | 1,011,578 | $0 | - | $0 | Flat | 2 | $94.63M | $0 |
| 2025-Q4 | 1,011,578 | $0 | - | $0 | Flat | 2 | $94.63M | $0 |
Invested = shares acquired (buys, grants, option exercises) — insider adding to the position. Divested = shares reduced (sells, dispositions, tax-withholding) — cash flowing TO the insider. Net direction shows which side wins on dollar terms in each bucket. % of holder's stake not yet computed (pending Form 3/4 holdings ingest). See methodology. The two @ last price columns restate the same share counts at the most recent share price we read (close of 2026-09-04); they are a valuation, not a cash flow, and they move every day the market does.
All transactions
| Date | Company | Kind | Shares | Amount (USD) | Value @ last price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-02 | Hut 8 | Grant / award / vesting · Performance Stock Units | 505,789 | - | $47.31M |
| 2025-11-02 | Hut 8 | Grant / award / vesting · Performance Stock Units | 505,789 | - | $47.31M |