Brad van Voorhees
Builder at the intersection of Bitcoin, clean energy, and institutional finance
I've spent the last decade building at edges — of markets, of technologies, of geographies. Right now that means designing the infrastructure layer that connects clean energy economics to Bitcoin and institutional capital.
How I Think
The only way to develop real fluency is to step fully into something unfamiliar. Comfort is where you execute. Discomfort is where you learn. Curiosity is a love for learning and discovery.
What I've built over fifteen years is less a career path and more a tolerance for the unknown — and a willingness to stay in that discomfort long enough for it to become competence. That's what resilience actually means to me. Not toughness. Just the refusal to leave the room before the lesson lands.
Risk isn't the opposite of security. It's the price of being somewhere interesting.
Selected Work
Harvestt — Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol
Founder & CEO of Harvestt, developer of the Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol. Built within Hub71, Abu Dhabi's flagship tech ecosystem backed by sovereign wealth fund Mubadala, SBP is a clean energy verification and monetization layer covering ~24% of global Bitcoin hashrate.
View work →VF Corporation
Nine years leading global sustainability strategy across an international portfolio of consumer brands, overseeing environmental and social impact, as well as stakeholder reporting at enterprise scale.
View work →Operating History
Global Operating Experience
Over thirteen years living and working across major global financial and commercial centers — each providing distinct operating contexts that shaped how I understand capital, regulation, and commercial incentives across jurisdictions. This experience also built something harder to quantify: the ability to navigate and conduct business across cultures around the globe.
Recent Notes
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