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Gregory J.D. Mumford

  • Chief Financial Officer, CIFR since 2025-10src

Ex-KBW digital-infrastructure banker; CFO of Cipher since October 2025

—thin record

Not ranked yet

Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design—individual, time only
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
33src
In the role
1 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
—
Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 2

  • No prior public-company CFO, controller or accounting-officer role is disclosed, yet he signs as both principal financial and principal accounting officersrc
  • Small owned stake so far: 9,994 shares at 2026-04-08, all from RSU vesting net of tax withholding; the rest of his exposure is unvested RSUssrc

Career

  1. 2025 – now
    Cipher Mining Inc. (renamed Cipher Digital Inc. 2026-02-20)src
    Chief Financial Officer
    From 2025-10-14
  2. 2019 – 2025
    Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (Stifel)src
    Investment Banking; Director and a leader of the Digital Assets & Infrastructure group
    December 2019 to September 2025; M&A and capital-markets advice focused on digital infrastructure and industrials

Undated in the sources

  • TD Banksrc, Various roles in commercial and corporate banking (credit)

Not located: Before December 2019 undated: the filings give no years for the Canadian bank roles or the McMaster degree. At 33 his career runs roughly a decade (per the proxy's 'over a decade'), so the ten-year window is only partly covered

Achievements

  • Named CFO at 32, straight from a sell-side banking role at KBW, succeeding founding CFO Edward Farrellsrc
  • At KBW advised on M&A and capital markets in digital infrastructure, the sector Cipher is moving intosrc
  • Hired on a $500,000 base salary, a 75%-of-salary target bonus and a 375,000-RSU sign-on award vesting in three equal annual instalmentssrc

Education

  • McMaster University, BCom Commercesrc
  • CFA Institute, CFA chartersrc

Background

  • Family The appointment 8-K states he has no family relationships with any director or executive officer and no Item 404(a) related-party interest; the 2026 proxy repeats the no-family-relationships statementsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

6
  1. Filing Cipher Digital DEF 14A, 2026 annual meeting (accession 0001819989-26-000016) · 2026-04-20
  2. Filing Cipher Mining 8-K Item 5.02, Farrell retirement and Mumford appointment (0001819989-25-000095) · 2025-10-06
  3. Filing Cipher Digital 10-Q for the quarter ended 2026-06-30 (0001819989-26-000041) · 2026-08-04
  4. Filing Form 4, Gregory J.D. Mumford, RSU vesting of 2026-03-31 (0001819989-26-000012) · 2026-04-07
  5. Filing Form 4, Gregory J.D. Mumford, RSU vesting of 2026-06-30 (0002090886-26-000006) · 2026-07-02
  6. Web search result WebSearch: KBW team page, Gregory Mumford (summary: earlier at TD Bank providing credit solutions to large Canadian companies before joining Stifel; 10+ years of corporate finance) · 2026-09-24