Fintech Finance Podcasts: The FF Salon at Sibos with Eddie Robb, Zumo

Joining us at the FF Salon for Sibos 2022, we caught up with Eddie Robb, the Commercial Director at Zumo Enterprise, to discuss the entrepreneurial spirit and the importance of enforcing sustainability in the cryptosphere and taking active steps to reduce the energy to power them. 

Brought up in the small town of Banchory, Aberdeenshire in Scotland, the need to create and solve problems has always been with Robb, whether it be as the Head of Commercial Development at Scotland’s biggest independent rugby blog (The Offside Line) or a snowboard instructor at the Okemo Mountain Resort. This self-sufficient drive has led Robb to work at the forefront of crypto innovation with Zumo. 

“We’ve taken the challenge head-on,” he explains. “There is a high energy burn use there, but at Zumo, we’ve put investment into how to solve that problem and try to understand it more. We have a Chief Sustainability Officer who is digging into that, and we have written two reports, working out the energy usage, and our plan as to how we’re going to take that on.” 

For Robb, exacting ESG in crypto comes from sustained effort, building the strategy in-house and building your teams and operations around it.