Crypto Hipster

Mark Wittenberg Mark is a crypto educator with a huge following. He has been in Partner Development with the Verge currency ($XVG) Core Team since early 2018. He was also an exhibitor and Top Influencer at CES2021. Mark is currently on the board of advisors for Voice Life Inc , Hypersphere Technologies, and CasinoCoin. His links with cryptocurrency go as far back as 2010. His love for all things crypto is reflected in his very impressive 239,000 followers on Twitter( @itsmwittenberg ) Mihael Radoslovic Mihael is a member of both Verge and Voice Life teams. He was born in Rijeka, Croatia where he finished his education for mechanical engineer. He worked as an offshore mechanical engineer for 15 years where he was responsible for a team of engineers. However, he recently decided to focus on what he is most passionate about - changing the world for the better with new advanced technologies. As a true ambassador of decentralized and open-source projects, Mihael joined the Verge community in early 2017 and quickly realized he could support the project from within the team by managing the internal team action and communications. His roles in the Verge team have changed multiple times over the years and for the past two years he volunteers as Project Manager for Verge Currency. In September 2021 Mihael joined Voice Life as Project Manager where he oversees all aspects of the project and coordinates various departments to ensure all projects are delivered on time. He enjoys working with other individuals and teams on delivering the latest technologies and inventions to the world.

This podcast is a montage of three interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with Mark Wittenberg (Canadian Dealer Solutions), Mihael Radoslovic (Voice Life), Matt Dixon (Evai.io), and Jonathan Ovadia (AEXLab/OVEX.io).

An interesting and useful conversation by Jamil with Armel Leslie from Peaks Strategies The Opportunities and Challenges of Public Relations within the Crypto Industry, with Armel Leslie and Peaks Strategies Armel Leslie is a Partner at Peaks Strategies delivering integrated brand-building campaigns for clients across the capital markets ecosystem with a strong reputation and expertise across alternative investment management and digital assets/crypto. Armel began his career at Walek & Associates in 1999 where he rose to a Partner by the time of its sale to integrated PR agency Peppercomm in 2013, where Armel was Senior Director of Capital Markets. Following his time at Peppercomm, Armel was a Senior Vice President at Sloane & Company, where he oversaw some of the firm’s leading financial services clients.He graduated cum laude with a BA in History from Baruch College (CUNY) in New York, where he worked at the Press Office his senior year. A Native of South Africa, he also attended the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is a Board Member and Treasurer of American Friends of Tikvot, a philanthropic organization headquartered in Israel.

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Jamil catches up with Matthijs de Vries to learn about this interesting new potential technology solution Constructing the Bridge between Traditional and Decentralized Finance Industries with the Help of Data Tunnels, with Matthijs de Vries and AllianceBlock Matthijs de Vries is Co-founder and CTO of AllianceBlock, the world’s first globally compliant decentralized capital market. An expert in the field of Software and Product Development, Matthijs spent 10 years at PostNL, one of the largest Dutch companies, where he successfully led document management-related software development (customer implementations and product development). In this role he was responsible for several different departments, as well as leading an entire software development chain before switching companies to lead the development of several unique AI products amongst which was a ground-breaking chatbot. He has an extensive and varied background as a software developer, establishing a full blown workflow management suite and analytical algorithm in the field of veterinary diagnostics, among various other projects, before growing into a managerial role. He knows what is important for a developer to be able to thrive and deliver high end products. Besides hands-on software development experience and management, Matthijs is a seasoned entrepreneur, founding three other companies. Personal Social Media LinkedIn Twitter AllianceBlock Social Media LinkedIn  

Jamil Hasan catches up with  Jamie Finn to learn more about transfer agency and the streaming and telecom projects he has worked on, his journey into crypto and his latest projects. 2021: The Year of the Token in Transfer Agency and Japanese Banking, with Jamie Finn, President and Co-Founder at Securitize Jamie Finn is a seasoned executive who has worked in 6 countries in both startups and corporations, and is the President and Co-Founder of Securitize, Inc. During his nearly 20 years of experience he has participated in over $500m worth of transactions, including Kontera, Sansa Security, Jajah, Tokbox, RingRing Media, and Zingy. Most recently, Jamie helped grow Aki Technologies from an 8 person, $1m company, to a profitable enterprise with over 60 people and tens of millions in revenue. His previous employers include Ericsson and Telefònica o2, and Jamie also held the position of AVP of Product Innovation at AT&T, as well as executive positions at numerous startups. He has been in San Francisco for the past 5 years, after spending 6 years in London. Jamie grew up in Puerto Rico and is a native English and Spanish speaker.

SupraOracles About SupraOracles SupraOracles aims to connect traditional capital markets with the web3 environment. Our aim and objective is to provide a revolutionary Oracle toolset to the developer community, allowing them to easily construct, deploy, and manage data applications with superior performance, robustness, and agility. Our team includes experts with backgrounds in consensus mechanism design, randomness research, real-time data services, investment banking, digital securities, traditional stock exchanges, big data, Ph.D. academia, big 4 consulting, blockchain/DLT, and DeFi. SupraOracles wants to solve the oracle conundrum and eventually power the future of finance with the help of our developer community and an increasing number of partners. Joshua D. Tobkin - Co-founder and CEO of SupraOracles Architect of Supra BFT Consensus Algorithm. Blockchain Designer & Developer. Lateral Thinker, Josh has been building SaaS companies for the last 10 years.

Christopher McGregor is CEO and co-founder of Vesto, a multi-token protocol for decentralized services.Prior to co-founding Vesto, Christopher was the Vice President of Engineering for Telemac Corporation, where he developed and launched Pay & Go with O2. With more than 20 million mobile handsets sold, Telemac became the most successful pre-paid mobile solutions in the UK. In 2004, he became the co-founder and Vice President of Engineering for Validus Technologies Corporation, where he developed the biometric technology that powered the VALIDcard™. Christopher conceptualized and developed multiple technologies including BT Cellnet's (O2) original Pay & Go, QoS (sold to Root Metrics)/ QoE solutions for 3G / 4G LTE mobile, mobile authentication for the U.S. Federal Government, the first pre-production prototypes of the world’s first ISO biometric powered card (now being offered by MasterCard internationally).A full stack engineer and serial entrepreneur who has held various other CTO and Senior Software Engineer roles, he is a named inventor on numerous issued patents and patents pending in the areas of biometric authentication, QoS (Quality of Service) for 3G, OIS (Open Internet Security) for 3G, mobile payments, social commerce, and dynamic marketing automation.

This podcast is a montage of four interviews with founders and executives, from the time period of March 2021 to June 2022, as originally published at www.anchor.fm/irish-tech-news. This podcast highlights short gems from Jamil Hasan (Crypto Hipster)'s interviews with Jamie Finn (Securitize), Matthijs de Vries (AllianceBlock), Joshua Tobkin (SupraOracles), and Christopher McGregor (Vesto).

Erhan Korhaliller is the Founder of EAK Digital a specialist blockchain creative communications agency and general partner at web3 fund and incubator Matterblock. EAK Digital are the company behind successful event brands BlockDown Festival and Istanbul Blockchain Week. Prior to launching EAK Digital, Erhan previously managed large scale project teams for blue-chip brands such as Nike, Rolls Royce, and Vodafone, successfully guiding his teams to multiple advertising awards, including a platinum award from Campaign Magazine. Erhan continues to lead from the front, giving PR a voice in the blockchain industry as a speaker at global events.