Hayden Gill
Hayden Gill is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of SLYD, President of The Gavin Gill Scholarship Foundation, and a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in GPU infrastructure, digital assets, e-commerce, and data center operations.
He is a pioneer in both decentralized finance and cryptocurrency mining, having built over 350 megawatts of data center infrastructure and deployed more than 160,000 GPUs across multiple ventures throughout his career.
Hayden founded SLYD in January 2023 to democratize enterprise-grade AI infrastructure for developers and enterprises worldwide. SLYD is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU hardware sales through authorized partnerships with Dell, HPE, Supermicro, and Lenovo, as well as colocation services, deployment services, GPU financing, and sovereign AI solutions. The company's platform enables organizations to own and control their AI infrastructure rather than renting from hyperscale cloud providers.
With Cofounder and CFO Love Joshi, who previously partnered with Hayden to deploy the same 350 megawatts of infrastructure and 160,000-plus GPUs, and CTO Kyle Sidles, a serial entrepreneur with over a decade of partnership with Hayden dating back to the early days of Bitcoin mining, SLYD was built for under $500,000 while competitors raised over $55 million before generating revenue.
Hayden is also the President of The Gavin Gill Scholarship Foundation, a nonprofit he established in July 2021 in honor of his son Gavin, who passed away on June 27, 2021, at the age of 22 from complications of Type 1 diabetes. The foundation provides scholarships to students with juvenile diabetes who excel in academics and athletics, and funds attendance at Camp Christopher for children who cannot afford the experience.
Gavin was a 2017 Rocky River High School graduate who attended The Ohio State University on a full ride, earning a degree in economics in 2021, and was a member of the club rugby team. Read Scholarship, nonprofit created for 2017 RRHS grad.
Between November 2020 and December 2022, Hayden was the CEO and Cofounder of Atlas Power, one of the largest Ethereum miners in the world, with operations based in Butte, Montana, and Williston, North Dakota. Atlas Power currently has 624 megawatts of infrastructure capacity across three hosting facilities located in Montana, North Dakota, and Kentucky, serving Bitcoin mining and GPUaaS applications.
In January 2022, Atlas Power announced a $1.9 billion data center project in Williston, North Dakota, with a planned capacity of 700 megawatts to be built in three phases. Read Large-scale crypto mining data center planned for western North Dakota oil patch and Montana and the Future of Renewable Mining.
Between December 2022 and February 2024, Hayden continued to serve Atlas Power as an Advisor. Between January 2018 and November 2020, Hayden was the CEO of Hash One, a company he formed to address the infrastructure, project management, and construction needs of industrial-scale cryptocurrency mining facilities. Hash One focused on power development, consumption, and purchasing, as well as full-scope design and build-out of substations, transformers, switchgear, site power distribution, development, and site location.
In January 2013, Hayden founded CoinMiner, a professional cryptocurrency mining operation based in the Cleveland/Akron, Ohio area that he led for 11 years until December 2023. CoinMiner has grown into one of the largest cryptocurrency mining operations on the U.S. East Coast, earning critical acclaim as a global leader and innovator focused on infrastructure efficiency.
CoinMiner was featured on CNN's Inside Man with Morgan Spurlock in the episode Living on Bitcoin, which aired on February 19, 2015, where Spurlock visited the CoinMiner facility, assembled ASIC mining rigs, and earned 0.3 BTC for a day's work. Read 'Days Felt Like Years': What Morgan Spurlock Found When He Lived on Bitcoin.
In 2013, Hayden cofounded Buzzdron Media, a full-service digital marketing and consulting agency with offices in Rocky River, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California. During 2013 and 2014, Buzzdron was responsible for many content and marketing campaigns launched in the fledgling Bitcoin media space, working with clients ranging from innovative startups to large corporations. He served as Cofounder until May 2020.
In September 2004, Hayden founded MOGS (Massive Online Gaming Sales), which became the largest virtual currency and asset brokerage based entirely in the United States, serving over 1,000,000 customers globally. MOGS was one of the first brokerage platforms for digital currencies and virtual mercantile exchange, with a focus on superior customer service, competitive pricing, and aggressive marketing. He served as CEO of MOGS until 2015.
Hayden's track record as an innovator dates back to 1999, when he was among the first entrepreneurs to resell digital goods from in-game environments to an external marketplace. Between October 2002 and December 2003, he was CEO of Playersbay LLC, which developed a consumer-to-consumer model for digital currency and goods for popular online MMOs. Playersbay was acquired in 2003. He also cofounded Additive Interactive LLC between March 2009 and February 2011, a mobile application development company.
He attended The University of Toledo from 1994 to 1996, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He also holds an MCSE Certification.
Hayden is a prolific writer on cryptocurrency and digital finance, having authored 16 articles published in leading industry and financial outlets, including American Banker, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk, Let's Talk Bitcoin, Corporate Wellness Magazine, CEO Blog Nation, and Realty Times. His publications include Bitcoin and Banking, Progressively Intertwined in American Banker, and Fiat Versus Finance: The Centennial of the Federal Reserve versus the Rise of Bitcoins in Bitcoin Magazine.
Hayden is a dedicated father of four. He is based in Missoula, Montana.
Visit his LinkedIn profile and SLYD Group website.