Around The Coin

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Bruce Pon the Founder of Ocean Protocol, a blockchain startup focused on bringing data and AI together since 2013. Previously, Bruce co-founded Avantalion, a consulting firm that helped to build 20 banks around the globe for companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi & Jaguar LandRover. He has an Advanced Executive Certificate from MIT Slo...

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Adam Dell, CEO of Domain Money. Adam is a serial entrepreneur, most recently a partner at Goldman Sachs where he served as Head of Product at Marcus by Goldman Sachs. There he built foundational products like Marcus Invest, Marcus Checking, and the market-leading mobile application Marcus Insights. Prior to Goldman, Adam founded four companies, including C...

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Nick Baum who is a Co-founder and the CEO at Tremendous. He started Tremendous in 2010, turning it from a small gift card company into a service used by millions around the world. He's responsible for the overall direction of the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Domagoj Rozic, CEO of Minka, an open network that enables organizations to move money in real time. He is a technologist that had the chance to participate in the internet, the mobile, and the bitcoin revolution over the last 20 years. Dom co-founded his first startup at the age of 20 and worked on then more than 50 IT projects in 10 countries around the g...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Caleb Avery, CEO & Founder of Tilled. With experience in the payments industry for over a decade, Caleb Avery was often asked to help software companies who were looking to monetize their payments. Unable to find a solution that didn’t require his clients to compromise on either technology, user experience, or economics, he decided that he needed his...

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Matt Medved, the co-founder, CEO and EIC of nft now, the premier web3 digital media platform for NFT coverage and curation. Under his leadership, nft now has become the most trusted source in NFT media and made history as the first-ever digital media publication to curate a major auction house sale with Christie’s. Prior to nft now, Medved founded Billboar...

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews James West, the CEO of Globe, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. James is a technologist, digital assets pioneer, and former trader and investor. He led the quantitative team at a hedge fund for four years, growing it from a small family fund to $300m assets under management with incredible risk-adjusted returns. He earned his Ph. D. just across from D...

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Merit Valdsalu, CEO and Co-Founder of Single. Earth, building a nature-backed economy to save the world. She’s an early employee at the unicorn company Pipedrive, a passionate environmentalist, and an avid equal rights supporter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Rand Hindi, CEO at Zama, a startup building homomorphic encryption solutions for web2 and web3 applications. Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor. Prior to Zama, Rand was the CEO of Snips, an AI company acquired by Sonos. He is an investor in over 50 startups, ranging from blockchain to semiconductors to psychedelics. He holds a degree in computer s...

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Sean Bennett, co-founder of Stronghold, a leading financial infrastructure company that provides fast, secure, and accessible financial services through a simple API. Stronghold, recently named as Forbes Fintech 50 company, works with businesses like IBM and Lyft to make payments quicker and easier while maintaining regulatory compliance and interoperabili...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Oleg Fomenko, Co-Founder of Sweatcoin, a virtual currency rewarding physical activity. Oleg is a serial entrepreneur who has launched a number of successful businesses, including a music subscription service that grew to 1.3 million registered users. Oleg played a key role in defining Sweatcoin as a health currency, driven by his extensive experience and...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Edul Patel who is the CEO and Co-Founder of Mudrex, the smartest way to invest in Crypto. Edul comes with over a decade of experience in finance, entrepreneurship, and building tech-driven applications. Prior to Mudrex, Edul was the Co-Founder of Niffler and served as Product Head of Tapzo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Tom Tirman the CEO of PARSIQ, a high-speed data solutions powering the backends of dApps & protocols. Tom has extensive experience in business and finance, having worked in both traditional banking institutions and fintech companies as well as being an entrepreneur. Tom holds a law degree from TalTech University. As a co-founder of blockchain companies...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Brooker Belcourt, CEO of Covey, an investment community open to all, powered by the smartest analysts in the world. Brooker is a former Hedge Fund analyst at Citadel, Coatue, and a Tiger Cub. He is also an avid investor, building a place to track his ideas, share them and learn from others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Alan Vey who is the Founder of Aventus Network. Alan is a Forbes 30 under 30 winner (2021) for his work as the founder & Chairman of the Aventus Network. Prior to Aventus, Alan worked at Deloitte in the Entrepreneurial Business Department, as well as macro hedge fund Brevan Howard. He completed his Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence at Imperial...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sean the CEO and Founder of Revix. He comes from an entrepreneurial and investment banking background. He founded 3 businesses and successfully exited 2 prior to starting Revix including Sataya, a proprietary trading firm, Blocktree Capital, a digital asset advisory firm, and Application Portal, a multi-purpose online university application system. Sean l...

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Scott Lawin, CEO of Candy Digital. As CEO, Scott oversees all aspects of Candy Digital, the next-generation technology company. Launched in 2021, Candy Digital designs and develops officially licensed, premium digital collectibles that connect people to their passions. Candy Digital is an official digital collectible partner of Major League Baseball, Getty...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Saeed Aldarmaki, Founder and CEO of Sheesha Finance. Saeed is the Special Advisor of CasperLabs and Co-Founder of Alphabit Digital Currency Fund. He was nominated as Investor of the Year by AIBC summit UAE in May 2021. He is one of the board members of entities such as DEX, RealEx, MENA Fintech Association, BeMobi, Jahani & Associates, LEAD Ventures,...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with John Tait who is the Global Managing Director of the Payments Market Business at Transaction Network Services (TNS), a worldwide provider of payments solutions to global companies in the most mission-critical industries. In his role, John is responsible for identifying and driving growth across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions and is focused...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Dawn Newton, COO and Co-Founder of Netki. An operation professional with 30 years of experience managing technical teams and growing innovative companies, Dawn Newton has successfully positioned herself as one of the premier operations executives at the forefront of emerging technical industries. From the early days of the internet to the booming blockcha...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Nimit Sawhney, the Co-Founder and CEO of Voatz, Inc, an elections platform that uses remote identity proofing, biometrics, and blockchain technology to enable end-to-end verifiable and accessible remote voting via smartphones and tablets. Voatz has run more than 90 elections serving 2+ million voters in partnership with major political parties at the stat...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Morgan McKenney, the CEO of Provenance Blockchain Foundation, the leading public open-source blockchain for financial services, leveraged by over 50 financial institutions and operating at scale today with billions of dollars of digital financial assets transacted across lending, payments and marketplaces. Prior to Provenance, McKenney spent nearly twenty...

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Jon Lerner, the co-founder and CEO of CoinTracker, the market leader in portfolio tracking and tax compliance for cryptocurrency. At CoinTracker, Jon has had a relentless drive to create a strong, mission-driven company that has a culture of trust, transparency, a long-term mindset, and a high-quality bar. With Jon’s leadership, CoinTracker has emerged as...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Adi Ben-Ari, the Founder & CEO of Applied Blockchain, a fast-growing company of blockchain and cryptography experts founded in 2015 and based in London, UK, and Porto, Portugal. The company has developed and deployed dozens of blockchain applications from NFT marketplaces for famous artists to sophisticated DeFi protocols and Web3 dApps for clients ra...

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Andrew Hoag, Founder and CEO of Teampay, the first purchasing software built for modern, tech-enabled businesses. Prior to founding Teampay in 2016, Andrew Hoag founded or co-founded five companies, including urbantag, which tackled the trillion-dollar online-to-offline commerce market and was acquired in 2012. In addition to these entrepreneurial and lea...