Engineer · Entrepreneur · Educator

Hunter Albright PhD

Nearly thirty years turning new technology into working businesses, from card lending at Barclaycard to bitcoin-backed credit at SALT. I build products, teach founders, and help people use bitcoin to take more control of their financial lives.

Now

Industry

Chief Revenue Officer, SALT Lending

Leading revenue strategy and growth at SALT in Denver, which has been lending against bitcoin since 2016.

Academia

Lecturer, University of Colorado Boulder

Teaching strategy, entrepreneurship and emerging technology across the Leeds School of Business and the College of Engineering since 2017.

Writing

The Bitcoin Advantage

Co-author with Shawn Owen (BTC Media). A practical guide to how people use bitcoin to create, preserve and manage wealth.

The path here

1990s–2006
Consumer credit, UKHead of Lending, Barclaycard. Chief Marketing Officer, Halifax Card Services. MasterCard UK advisory board.
2006–2012
Strategy and analyticsCo-founder and Managing Partner, Knowledge Network International. CEO, Beyond Analysis North America.
2012–2017
TechnologyCOO, Zoola (card-linked loyalty). SVP New Markets, Tendril, now Uplight (energy analytics).
2017–2023
VenturesCo-founder and CEO, Curve10 product innovation studio. CEO, Work the Edge.
2023–today
Bitcoin financeChief Revenue Officer, SALT Lending.

Education and community

PhD, M.Eng. and B.S. in Systems Engineering, University of Virginia
Founder, University of Colorado Blockchain Alliance
Co-chair, IEEE Blockchain Education Initiative
Advisory board, CryptoCurrency Certification Consortium (C4)
Co-creator, Demystifying Entrepreneurship: Rural Colorado Workshop Series, recognized in AACSB Innovations That Inspire (2020)

Speaking

Bitcoin 2025, Las Vegas: A New Wave of Bitcoin Lending Products
Bitcoin 2024, Nashville: The Transition from TradFi to DeFi
REIMAGINE Blockchain (2020): the university's role in blockchain innovation
Blockchain Training Conference (2019): blockchain business model design sprint