Ashton Harris

Ashton Harris has served as the CTO of Whinstone since 2021, previously serving as CIO since its inception in 2018, and brings deep technical knowledge to the Riot leadership team. Ashton leverages his technical knowledge and his business acumen in creating an effective enterprise technology strategy. Ashton's strategy focuses on providing scalable solutions for the facility’s technical design and software. This has been essential to the growth of Whinstone in becoming the leading Bitcoin hosting facility, in North America.

Ashton came across Bitcoin in 2011, and was enamored by the idea of a distributed, internet native, electronic cash. This passion led him to forgo his post-secondary career during his freshman year in college and choose a different path, to build his first mining farm. His early knowledge in mining farms, Bitcoin, and the emerging technology in the industry has made a solid foundation to help pioneer the future infrastructure of Bitcoin hosting technology.

As one of the founders of Whinstone, Ashton helped to build the firm with his colleagues Chad Harris and Lyle Theriot.