Gary A. Vecchiarelli is an independent director of Skillz and has more than 20 years of professional experience in accounting, finance & capital markets. Gary is currently President & Chief Financial Officer of CleanSpark, Inc., a multi-billion-dollar market cap NASDAQ company operating in the bitcoin mining and data center industries. Gary has focused on high-growth middle market companies where he has held senior-level and executive roles. He has extensive experience in mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, strategic planning & execution and U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting & SOX compliance. During his career, Gary has raised over $3 billion dollars of capital in the public markets through common equity and convertible debt instruments. Gary has extensive casino gaming experience serving as SVP of Finance & Chief Accounting Officer for Golden Entertainment and Chief Financial Officer for Galaxy Gaming. In the first part of Gary’s career, he worked for several public accounting firms including McGladrey & Pullen, LLP and most recently BDO USA, LLP where he helped open the Las Vegas audit practice of BDO.
Gary has been a licensed CPA since 2006 and has active licenses in California & Nevada. In 2014, Gary was named to the Las Vegas “40 under 40” list of accomplished young professionals by VEGAS INC magazine. Gary is currently a member of the CNBC CFO Council and an independent director for Doral Academies of Las Vegas, one of the top performing charter school systems in the state of Nevada.