Samuel Auch

Samuel “Sam” Auch is a digital-assets operator and former CPA whose public profiles show a career spanning accounting, blockchain advisory, startup operations, product management, and client success. He holds a BBA in Accounting from James Madison University, with a minor in Honors Interdisciplinary Studies focused on leadership, and his LinkedIn profile lists a Connecticut CPA credential.

Auch spent almost four years at RSM on its digital asset team, where he worked across audit, tax, and consulting. Blockworks says he helped clients account for digital assets on balance sheets, understand tax consequences of DeFi activity, and review controls around wallet key management. His LinkedIn publications also list RSM-authored work on blockchain, digital asset accounting, capital raising through blockchain-based offerings, authentication, and digital asset classifications.

In 2020–2021, Auch served as COO of Huddle, a startup marketplace for matching founders with creators and startup talent. Huddle’s Republic campaign listed him as COO and reported that the company raised $320,993 from 790 investors by December 11, 2021.

He later worked as Product Manager at Exodus, where Blockworks says he defined product strategy for token and network additions. As of 2026, public sources list him at Bakkt, with recent public appearances identifying him as VP, Head of Client Success and Partnerships, focused on regulated digital asset infrastructure, stablecoin payment rails, and client adoption.

• Public sources do not verify a standalone angel-investing track record, check size, or formal fund. The strongest public evidence points to Auch as an operator and advisor in digital assets rather than a publicly listed institutional investor.
• Auch states on his personal site that he is working on “helping early stage companies with all things product and operations.”
• His practical focus is crypto and fintech infrastructure: Bakkt materials and interviews describe APIs, licenses, compliance, trading infrastructure, stablecoin payments, and fiat on/off-ramp capabilities.
• He appears especially interested in real-world financial use cases for crypto. In a May 2026 LinkedIn post, he wrote that the next phase of digital-asset growth will be driven by “useful real-world financial applications.”
• His earlier RSM work suggests a diligence lens around digital-asset accounting, tax treatment, controls, wallet key management, and regulatory clarity.