Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc. announced that Young Kim, age 48, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer ("COO") in addition to being appointed as a member of the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board"). Mr. Kim will report to Thomas "Tom" Lee, Chairman of the Board. This appointment is effective January 1, 2026.
Young Kim is a seasoned investment executive with more than 20 years of experience managing multi-billion-dollar global franchises. He brings a distinctive "engineer-investor" perspective, shaped by his early career as a software engineer and his education at MIT and Harvard Business School. From 2021 to 2025, Mr. Kim served as Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager at Axiom Investors, following a decade as Senior Portfolio Manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments from 2011 to 2021.
Earlier in his career, he held roles across investment research, venture capital, business development, and software engineering, with a proven track record of scaling assets, driving product innovation, and executing complex strategies.
