Around The Coin

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 science and a PhD in bioinformatics from UCL in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 interoperability between payment systems. Sean is a renowned technology expert in the digital currency space, having designed and executed some of the first distributed cross-border transactions of sovereign currencies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 knowledge of the behavioral change. Oleg believes that technology can positively impact a user’s health habits by leveraging human biology and sustainably altering behavior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 PARSIQ and IQ Labs, he focuses his business on bringing disruptive next-gen technologies to the masses.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 College London in 2016. His Master’s thesis focused on blockchain technology, looking for a use case around event ticketing and he conceived a business plan for what became Aventus, for which he successfully raised over $20m in 2017. Alan is continually looking at solving real-world problems using his knowledge of Maths, Economics, and Computer Science.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 led the technology investment team at Draper Gain a London-based family office, was a lead investment associate at Knife Capital one of South Africa’s leading VCs and managed a >$100m fixed income and technology portfolio at Sabvest, a JSE listed specialist investment group. Sean is a CFA Charterholder and graduated Magna Cum Laude when completing his Bachelor of Business Science (Honours) in Finance at the University of Cape TownLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Images, the Race Team Alliance, and the WWE. Candy operates digital collectible ecosystems where fans and collectors are able to purchase, trade, and share authentic digital collectibles to deepen their love of the sports, media and culture.Prior to Candy, Scott founded Parametric, LP, a private investment and advisory firm focused on early-stage opportunities in blockchain, fintech, art and real estate. From 2010-2017, he was Chief Operating Officer of Moore Capital Management, a $15 billion global alternative investment management company. Lawin has also served as Chief Operating Officer of the Liquid Markets business at Fortress Investment Group following a 12-year career at Goldman, Sachs & Co.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, Royale Finance, Artha, TeraBlock, and Kenzi Wealth, to name a few. Saeed is a fixed-income specialist working for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority for Traditional Finance.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices