Bob Burnett

founder and CEO of Barefoot Mining

Bob Burnett is the founder and CEO of Barefoot Mining, a company focused on the development of small to medium-sized Bitcoin mining sites, and he is a vocal proponent for the expansion of diversity in Bitcoin mining site geography, scale, and energy sources. Bob has spent over 35 years as a technologist including 13 years at Gateway, Inc., a Fortune 200 personal computer company, where he led the company’s product development efforts as Chief Technical Officer.

He has founded several companies in the Bitcoin mining space and is an evangelist and educator for Bitcoin and its importance to the world’s future. He has a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.