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Mr. Swanson began a distinguished career as an entrepreneur focusing on arbitrage opportunities in emerging markets and venture capital.
In 2008, Swanson brokered several large energy transactions in Asia and later acquired over 9000 hectares of mining concessions. As a distinguished guest of the Chairman for the 2013 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”) Summit, Mr. Swanson participated in the inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Since then, Mr. Swanson has been involved as a public company director for more than 15 years, having publicly listed his first public company in 2006. In 2009, Swanson led the acquisition of Blackline GPS, Inc. which later became Blackline Safety, in a merger with a publicly listed acquisition company founded by Mr. Swanson, called Picasso, Inc.. Mr. Swanson served as co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer during his decade long tenure with Blackline. Under his leadership, the company achieved a market capitalization of approximately $500 million and remains a stand-out in the field of innovation and manufactured technology products. Today, Blackline employs over 500 people and has offices in Canada, United States, France, UK and the UAE. (see www.blacklinesafety.com)
In 2018, Mr. Swanson served as Vice Chairman of Flavocure Biotech, Inc., and dedicated much of his time and effort to cancer research. In 2021, the company submitted an application for an investigational new drug (“IND”) to the FDA for human clinical trials undertaken by John’s Hopkins University Hospital in collaboration with Harvard Medical School. Since then, Mr. Swanson developed a cancer protocol together with a team of physicians and scientists, called Swanson Plante Protocol (“SPP”), which has been used successfully in early to late stage support cancer therapies at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere.
In 2020, Mr. Swanson as co-Founder and CEO of Blockcap, Inc. he embarked and executed a strategy that created of one of the largest digital bitcoin mining operations in the world which was acquired by Core Scientific (Nasdaq: CORZ) in 2021 for $1.46 billion USD.
Mr. Swanson was instrumental in the formation of what would be among the largest collections of hashing power in North America. In 2021, as start-up President, Chief Executive Officer, and Vice Chairman of Blockcap, Inc. Swanson shaped the executive team and mentored the company’s explosive growth.
In 2021, the company announced its acquisition for $1.46 billion as part of a three corner amalgamation with Core Scientific, Inc. and a Blackrock backed SPAC called, Power & Digital Infrastructure Acquisition Corp, for a combined value of $4.3 billion USD.
Core Scientific, one of the largest cryptocurrency miners in the United States, announced Wednesday it plans to list on the Nasdaq exchange in a deal that values the four-year-old company at $4.3 billion—the latest sign the nation’s growing prominence as a bitcoin mining hub should only rise as longtime market leader China continues cracking down on the space.