Around The Coin

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Willie Pang, the CEO of Limepay, an Australian-born fintech that's revolutionizing payments through its interoperable tech stack that allows brands to seamlessly embed financial services, such as Buy Now Pay Later installments.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend spoke with Alex Behar, CIO of Zotapay, a global payment service provider that facilitates online payment processing solutions for emerging markets worldwide, supplying innovative and secure technology. Alex is a visiting lecturer on Cyber Defense and Crisis Management at the University of National and World Economy, Department of “National and Regional Security”.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend spoke with Hartej Sawhney, who is the founder and CEO of Zokyo, a blockchain cybersecurity venture studio that secures, builds, and funds Web3 businesses. He is also the co-founder of Hosho, ranked #1 Smart Contract Auditor in 2019 by Forbes. Hartej is an investor, advisor, and operator, with a strong knowledge of crypto/Web3, blockchain cybersecurity, blockchain engineering, decentralized finance (DeFi), and Web3 Gaming.As an industry pioneer, he has played a key role in elevating standards in the digital asset ecosystem and introducing products and services that set the industry benchmark for security, transparency, and compliance. His efforts have been recognized as paving the way for the ongoing institutionalization of the industry.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Nelson Chu the founder and CEO of Percent, the platform powering the future of private markets. He is a 3x startup founder with several years of experience at leading investment management firms, including Bank of America and BlackRock. Prior to Percent, Nelson founded a strategy consulting firm specializing in helping companies build products and raise capital for growth, creating over $1B in equity value. He currently serves as an advisor to an ultra-high-net-worth family office and is an active angel investor, with notable investments including BlockFi, Cadre, Care/Of, Clover Health, dv01, Eden Health, Plentina, Tala, and Uala.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Stefan Rust, CEO and Founder of Truflation - an independent economic and financial data in real-time on-chain. From the early telecom and mobile industries to growing Bitcoin.com as its CEO, Stefan Rust is a recognized global leader in early-tech entrepreneurism. In recent years, Rust has focused on the blockchain industry, founding Laguna Labs and helping to launch decentralized finance startups trustednode.io, truflation.com, and nuon.fi.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Geoffrey Thompson, Chief Blockchain Officer at Roofstock onChain - Real-world homes on blockchain that you can buy with one click. Geoff built his career at top-tier law firms practicing in the areas of capital markets, banking and credit, structured finance, private equity, and cross-border transactions. Geoff’s prior role at Roofstock was as General Counsel where he advised on partnerships, product innovation, fundraising, deal structuring, real estate matters, securities law, international expansion, and all other legal and compliance matters. Before joining Roofstock, Geoff served as General Counsel at ApplePie Capital, where he was instrumental in helping the company originate over $500 million in small business loans in 3 years. He previously practiced law at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, White & Case, and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Geoff has an undergraduate degree from The American University of Paris and a Masters in International Economics from SDA Bocconi in Milan. He earned a JD and LLM from the Duke University School of Law.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Zach Bradford, CEO and President of CleanSpark - a publicly traded Bitcoin mining company. Zach has acquired over five companies, doubled revenue and quadrupled CleanSpark’s workforce since becoming chief executive officer in 2019. He was CleanSpark’s chief financial officer from 2014 to 2019 before taking on his current role as chief executive officer. Since 2013, he has been a partner in a public accounting and consulting firm in Henderson, Nevada. Zach holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting and a Master of Accountancy from Southern Utah University. He enjoys building teams, strategic thinking, and mountain biking.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Kyle Ellicot who is a Partner at Stacks Ventures. Kyle is also a Co-Chair of Bitcoin Odyssey, a Partner at Intersect VC, and an active Blockchain & dApps analyst. He is also a noted TEDx and global keynote speaker, strategist, published author, & technologist with over 15 years of experience at the cornerstone of digital transformation between industry and technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Vlad Panchenko, CEO and Founder at DMarket.com - a marketplace and infrastructure for Web3 companies to join a global metaverse. He is a video game and technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience. His cosmopolitan life views have formed his business approach of a world without borders through gaming and interactive entertainment companies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend sat down with Gab Columbro, Executive Director of FINOS - Fintech Open Source Foundation. Gab is an open source executive and technologist at heart, having spent over 15 years building developer ecosystems to deliver value through open source across Europe and the US. He thrives on driving innovation both contributing to open source communities and joining commercial open source ventures. Previously Director of Product Management at Alfresco, as Executive Director Gab grew FINOS from the ground up, with the vision of creating a trusted arena for the global financial services industry to innovate faster through open source collaboration. Gab holds a Master in Computer Engineering, is a Committer for the Apache Software Foundation, and advises open source startups. He’s a passionate soccer fan, reggae music connoisseur and special needs dad, and advocates wannabe.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices