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Blue Gold Appoints Rob Simpson as Director of Risk and Digital Operations
NEW YORK, NY, Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Gold Limited (Nasdaq: BGL) (“Blue Gold” or the “Company”), is proud to announce the appointment of Rob
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[{"type":"text","content":"NEW YORK, NY, Dec. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Gold Limited (Nasdaq: BGL) (“Blue Gold” or the “Company”), is proud to announce the appointment of Rob Simpson as Director of Risk and Digital Operations. Simpson joins the Company with a distinguished track record in financial risk, payments infrastructure, and operational excellence - most notably serving as Head of Risk and Payments at Bolt, one of the fastest-scaling fintech companies in the world. During his tenure at Bolt, Simpson played a pivotal role in building and maturing the company’s risk and payments systems as Bolt grew at hyper-speed. Bolt surged to an $11B valuation, scaled to hundreds of merchants and thousands of retailers, and became synonymous with one-click checkout innovation. As Head of Risk and Payments, Simpson helped architect the frameworks that allowed Bolt to scale aggressively while maintaining trust, safety, regulatory alignment, and operational resiliency. The experience of balancing mass-market growth with enterprise-grade governance positions him uniquely for Blue Gold’s next chapter. In addition to his leadership at Bolt, Simpson has held key roles across fraud prevention, payments strategy, digital operations, and risk management at several high-growth technology and financial organizations - giving him a comprehensive, 360-degree view of the challenges and opportunities that arise when technology, regulation, and rapid scale converge. At Blue Gold, Simpson will be responsible for: Building and overseeing a comprehensive enterprise-wide risk framework;Leading digital operations, including blockchain-based initiatives and tokenization strategies;Implementing scalable governance and compliance structures across digital-asset operations;Supporting the Company's exploration of a gold-backed digital token and other innovative asset-digitization models. “Rob’s arrival marks a significant milestone for Blue Gold,” said Nathan Dionne, Chief Technology Officer. “His experience at Bolt - a company that scaled at a pace few organizations ever achieve - gives him a rare combination of operational discipline and innovation-first thinking. This is the exact type of leadership we need as Blue Gold evolves into a next-generation resource and digital-asset company.” Simpson added, “Blue Gold is uniquely positioned at the intersection of real-world assets an...