Bruce Fenton
President & Managing Director
Bruce Fenton global leader in Bitcoin, financial technology and open source investing. Bruce is an experienced investor and Chief Investment Officer with over 30 years in traditional finance as an SEC & FINRA registered professional. Bruce is an active proponent of free markets, liberty and the Austrian School of Economics.
Financial Background:
Fenton is the Managing Director and President at Watchdog Capital, an SEC registered FINRA member broker-dealer based in the United States.
Bruce is also Founder of Chainstone Labs, an investment and advisory company focused on the intersection of securities, Bitcoin and financial tech. In 1994, Bruce founded Atlantic Financial, the first full-service investment firm on the internet.
Prior to Atlantic Financial, Bruce began his career with Morgan Stanley and specialized in emerging technologies and emerging markets. Bruce has completed several significant transactions totaling over $7 billion and served as a consultant to large investment funds, ultra high net worth individuals and families.
Fenton is a Series 7 and Series 24 licensed registered General Securities Principal with FINRA and member of an SEC registered broker dealer https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/2286983
Middle East & Saudi Arabia:
Bruce made his first trip to the GCC in 1996 and to UAE in 2002. Bruce and his family lived and worked on and off in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 18 years. Bruce served as an advisor to one of the world’s largest charitable organizations for Gulf engagement in 2009-2013. He served as Saudi Arabia’s focused advisor to a top ten global private equity firm with over $150 Billion AUM and was an advisor to the Governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority.
Bitcoin & Digital Assets:
Bruce Fenton became involved with Bitcoin in 2012 and has been involved full time in the Bitcoin and blockchain industry since 2013.
Fenton is the Host and Founder of the Satoshi Roundtable, now in its 11th year, an exclusive, invitation-only retreat for leading CEOs, Developers, Founders and academics in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Satoshi Roundtable will be hosting its annual event for the 11th year in 2025, and was recently held in the UAE.
In 2014-15 Fenton served as a Board Member and former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation which was the original funder of Bitcoin development. He is Founder of the Bitcoin Association.
Bruce is the organizer of the first Dubai Bitcoin Conference in 2014 and was advisor to the technology office of the Ruler of Dubai in 2013-14.
Bruce is an active investor in the blockchain ecosystem including seed stage investments in Ethereum and Block.one.
Bruce has served on several boards including Overstock, tZero and the Fox Foundation.
Politically Active:
Bruce has been active in US politics and liberty. In 2022 he was a candidate for United States Senate representing New Hampshire.
Fenton was the Campaign Co-Chairman for New Hampshire for Vivek Ramaswamy’s 2024 Presidential Campaign.
Bruce is a member of the Free State Project in New Hampshire and an active advocate for human rights.
Bruce’s Personal Life:
Bruce is a father of four and married to Carolann Fenton. They live between Saudi Arabia, UAE and New Hampshire. The Fenton’s own the historic Durham Point farm / former Langley Buffalo farm and Bickford Garrison on the Seacoast New Hampshire.
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