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Account Executive
Shane Hazel
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Peace, liberty & consent create environments that promote the passion and genius in all of us.
Backstory
In late 2005 after two high op tempo combat deployments as a Force Recon Marine, I decided to finish my degree in international business at the University of Georgia. For the next 15 years I lead teams in the aerospace industry as an international business development director, account executive & program manager.
Much of my life experience led my wife and I to create a very independent anti-fragile family which manifested in homesteading, home schooling, jiujitsu and bitcoin. In 2022 I founded the Brave Collective Post Traumatic Stress Mission that works with veterans and civilians with cutting edge natural medicines.
In 2018 I began podcasting, and today I host and produce the Bitcoin Veterans & Radical podcasts.
Bitcoin story
Inspired by Ron Paul, I became a student of Austrian Economics in 2008 and devoured Rothbard, Mises, Hayek and every other Austrian author I could get my hands on, special thanks to the Mises Institute.
In 2016 I began planning my entry into politics to fight the corruption of the fiat counterfeit class. I ran campaigns for (2018) US Congress, (2020) US Senate & (2022) Governor of Georgia where I discovered that freedom can only be achieved after we fix the money.
It was 2019 when I finally found bitcoin maximalists Alex Svetski & Saifedean Ammous that connected Austrian Economics and Bitcoin for me. As I poured through every bitcoin book, article & podcast I could find I had the realization that Bitcoin was scarce inevitable money that no counterfeit class on earth could manipulate or steal.
From there I was determined to find my place in the Bitcoin only industry, and lucky for me the amazing people at Swan had an opening.
Interests
- Family
- Outdoors
- Homesteading
- Enlightenment
Selected Media Appearance
Meet our team
Best-in-class service
![Steven Lubka](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883734-steven.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.49&fp-y=0.25&q=75&w=1560)
Head of Swan Private
![Alex Stanczyk](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683884022-alex.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.51&fp-y=0.29&q=75&w=1560)
Managing Director
![John Haar](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683884073-john.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.52&fp-y=0.26&q=75&w=1560)
Managing Director
![Terrence Yang](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883930-terrance.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.46&fp-y=0.37&q=75&w=1560)
Managing Director
![Matthew Gillette](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1690967521-matthew-4.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.53&fit=crop&fp-x=0.51&fp-y=0.31&q=75&w=1440)
Account Executive
![Isaiah Douglass](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1692939827-untitled-design-2.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.19&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&q=75&w=4000)
Account Executive
![Cory Klippsten](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1684314666-cory.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.52&fp-y=0.58&q=75&w=1560)
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
![Gui Gomes](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883964-gui.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.53&fp-y=0.38&q=75&w=1560)
Chief Business Officer
![Rapha Zagury](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883991-rapha.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.46&fp-y=0.32&q=75&w=1560)
Chief Investment Officer
![Jeremy Showalter](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1690359122-jeremy.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.24&fit=crop&fp-x=0.47&fp-y=0.54&q=75&w=3126)
Chief Product Officer
![Sam Callahan](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883707-sam.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.45&fp-y=0.37&q=75&w=1560)
Lead Analyst
![Brady Swenson](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883853-brady.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.46&fp-y=0.38&q=75&w=1560)
Head of Marketing — Global Wealth
![Kristin Thompson](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1684218587-kristin.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.57&fp-y=0.42&q=75&w=1560)
Head of Events
![Dante Cook](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883799-dante.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.49&fp-y=0.32&q=75&w=1560)
Head of Swan Business
![Ryan Flynn](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883770-ryan.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.42&fp-y=0.34&q=75&w=1560)
Head of Swan Advisor
![Nathan Dennis](https://www.datocms-assets.com/65699/1683883879-nathan.jpg?ar=1%3A1&auto=format&crop=focalpoint&dpr=0.49&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.27&q=75&w=1560)
Product Manager