Washington, DC (September 16, 2025) — Merris Badcock, Executive Director of the Treasury Council (TCo) announced the group’s first members today. The new coalition is an exclusive leadership body of corporate executives, policymakers, and institutional voices advancing crypto’s role in corporate treasury strategy, macro policy, and global finance.
This group of leaders pioneered holding digital assets on their company’s balance sheets and plan to advocate for others to do so as a part of sound global investment strategy.
The inaugural members of TCo include:
- Phong Le, CEO, Strategy
- Fred Thiel, Chairman and CEO, MARA
- Jason Les, CEO, Riot
- Matt Schultz, CEO, CleanSpark
- Matt Prusak, CEO, American Bitcoin Corp
- Jihan Wu, Chair of the Board and CEO, Bitdeer Technologies Group
- Chris Pavlovski, Founder and CEO, Rumble
- Jaime Leverton, CEO, ReserveOne
- N.G. Zhang, Founder and CEO, Canaan Inc.
“This Council brings together the institutional voices who understand what’s at stake. If the U.S. wants to lead on financial innovation, it must listen to the companies already integrating digital assets into their treasury and operations,” said Badcock.
While many leadership groups focus on one jurisdiction or region, TCo is a global effort to engage and advance adoption of crypto as a store of value in the U.S. To read the full letter calling on Congress to act on the BITCOIN Act, click here.
The Treasury Council is a project of The Digital Chamber, and builds on the organization’s efforts to support innovation, job creation and global U.S. leadership on digital assets.
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