Around The Coin

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Tyler Spalding is co-founder and CEO at Flexa, a cryptocurrency payments network making real-world payments more efficient, accessible, and affordable for everyone. Tyler has been founding and investing in various blockchain projects since 2011. He was previously the CTO of Raise, co-founder of two e-commerce startups, and an engineering lead with the United Space Alliance, US Air Force, and NASA’s Space Shuttle Program. He holds two Masters degrees from MIT and UIUC.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amit is the CEO and co-founder of Stader Labs. He has over 8 years of experience in Strategy, business transformation and start-up strategy across a variety of businesses. Most recently, he worked as Special Project Head at Swiggy, where he spearheaded organization transformation and strategic process implementation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Jeff Winner is CEO of Happy Money, a financial technology company on a mission to bring people greater happiness through financial tools and services. Prior to his appointment in August 2021, he was Chief Operating Officer, overseeing Engineering, Member Experience, Operations, Product, Science, and Technology. He joined the company in 2020 as Chief Technology Officer and has helped drive business performance during a period of rapid growth, increase operating leverage, and begin productizing the company’s proprietary science.Prior to joining Happy Money, Jeff spent two years at Goldman Sachs as the CTO of Marcus, where he led the team building the Apple card and pioneered the first cloud-based Goldman Sachs product. Previous to that, he led engineering teams at a series of Silicon Valley companies, including Stripe and Twitter. He holds advanced and undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Ryan Lee, Founder & CEO of Nautical Commerce, the marketplace enablement platform. Ryan has an extensive background in payments, logistics, and commerce. He led the Apple team in launching Apple Pay international and held leadership roles at Visa, Turvo, and ModoPayments. Ryan is skilled at developing and driving a full-stack cloud technology vision and strategy to increase revenues, grow the client base, and achieve efficiencies in a collaborative results-oriented way. His company, Nautical, enables companies to do just that using its multi-vendor marketplace technology.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Roneil Rumburg, Co-founder and CEO of Audius, a digital streaming service that connects fans directly with artists and exclusive new music. Audius is fully decentralized, owned and run by a vibrant, open-source community of artists, fans, and developers all around the world. Founded in early 2018, Audius serves millions of users every month, making it one of the largest crypto applications ever built.Prior to Audius, Roneil most recently co-founded Kleiner Perkins' early-stage seed fund, KPCB Edge. At KP, he was responsible for seed investments into Blockchain and AI companies, including Lightning Labs. Roneil attended Stanford University and previously co-founded a Bitcoin peer to peer payment company called Backslash.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Will Graylin, Founder and CEO of OV Loop, Inc., a Universal Wallet and Commerce Messaging platform for frictionless commerce experiences everywhere. He is also CEO of Indigo Technologies, an Electric Mobility company with breakthrough affordable EVs for fleets & drivers. Prior to OV Loop, Will was the Global Co-GM of Samsung Pay, and Founder of LoopPay (acquired by Samsung), ROAM Data (acquired by Ingenico), WAY Systems (acquired by Verifone), and EntitleNet (acquired by BEA Systems/later Oracle). Will holds two Masters from MIT and serves on the Board of Directors for Synchrony Financials (the largest private label credit card issuer in the world) and Global Unites (a non-profit organization to help youths around the world become local leaders through conflict transformation.)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend chats with Ozan Özerk, founder of OpenPayd. Ozan is a serial fintech entrepreneur. Trained as a medical doctor, Ozan’s entrepreneurial career seeds were sowed in the late 1990s during which time he successfully built and sold multiple tech businesses.In 2015, Ozan made the shift to the fintech industry which also marks the founding of OpenPayd, which provides businesses with easy access to banking and payment solutions to help them grow globally. As a pioneer of the fintech industry, Dr. Ozan Özerk frequently shares his thoughts and projections on the future of fintech through interviews and opinion pieces. He is excited by the innovation cryptocurrencies are bringing to the industry and often speaks and writes on the topic.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Dan Raju, the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Tradier. Dan has the overall responsibility of Tradier and the company’s strategy and direction. Under his leadership, Tradier has grown rapidly from an innovative product to an essential infrastructure fabric that powers 200 plus investing platforms globally and serves some of the most active traders in the market. In his 25-year plus career as a technologist and entrepreneur, he has launched many successful online retail and financial products. Prior to founding Tradier, Dan was the Chief Information officer of Tradeking(now Ally Invest). Prior to that held senior executive level positions for large companies like Associated Press, Borders Book Stores, Charming Shoppes, and NCR. Dan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from JN Technology University in India and a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi, USA.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend sits down with Teddy Woodward, Co-Founder of Notional Finance. Notional is a decentralized protocol on Ethereum that enables users to lend and borrow crypto at fixed interest rates. Before starting Notional, Teddy was an interest rate swap trader at Barclays Investment Bank. He got into crypto in 2018 and has been hooked ever since.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sean Rach, Co-Founder of hi. He was the founding Chief Marketing Officer of Crypto.com, leading the charge to create the FinTech startup’s first 3 million customers across the globe.  A Doctor of Business Administration candidate at Warwick Business School, Sean has also served in executive marketing roles for a number of top global companies including Prudential Corporation Asia, OgilvyOne Hong Kong, and the Mobile Marketing Association. He has led the development of several innovative digital platforms, including Cha-Ching (financial literacy), Safe Steps (with NatGeo and Red Cross), and earlier helped launch Hallmark.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices