Hunter Horsley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bitwise Asset Management, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing crypto-specialist asset managers. He leads the firm's executive team and focuses his time on clients, industry stewardship, and the firm's product development. Horsley is an expert in product management, product marketing, and operations. Prior to Bitwise, he served as a Product Manager on video monetization at Facebook and Instagram, where he helped creators and publishers have sustainable models on the platforms. Throughout his career, Horsley has raised at least $4 million from Khosla Ventures, Naval Ravikant, and others to build cryptocurrency indexes that rely on transparent criteria. Today, he leverages his extensive experience in these social media platforms in managing an investment company focused on digital assets like Bitcoin, XRP, and Ethereum.
Bitwise is known for launching the world's first and largest crypto index fund and pioneering over a dozen investment products, crossing $1B in 2021.
Hunter has raised over $80M of equity capital from well-known backers, and built a team that combines Silicon Valley technology expertise with decades of asset management experience and a singular focus on crypto.
Today, the growing Bitwise product suite spans ETFs, publicly traded trusts, private funds, and SMAs, providing exposure to decentralized finance, NFTs, yield, cryptocurrency, and more.
HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
2019 Forbes 30 Under 30
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Horsley has been featured and quoted in numerous financial media outlets and publications.
He has appeared in Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg, and more.
He has also appeared in Blockworks, CoinDesk, The Block, Cryptonews, and Real Vision, among others.
EDUCATION
B.S., Economics, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania