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Graham Wallington Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer Graham developed a passion for nature during his first career as a SCUBA diving instructor. In 1998 he co-founded Africam.com (which grew to [one of] the biggest African websites in the early 2000s) and since then has been wholly focused on sharing nature with humanity. He is deeply inspired by the Internet and the opportunities it provides for making the world a better place for ALL its inhabitants.

Carter KleinCarter is a Software Engineer and Head of DeFi at cmorq, where he's responsible for driving the product and engineering efforts behind the cmorq app. Prior to cmorq, Carter has worked on exponential-growth financial products responsible for processing $350M+ MoM at Capital One. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, working as an early engineer at a seed-funded data analytics startup throughout school.

Rene Stefancic is Partnerships Lead at Enjin, where he oversees ecosystem adoption and partnerships. A results-driven professional who thrives at the intersection of product, marketing, IT, and growth, Rene enjoys finding pragmatic and scalable solutions to tough problems and creating long-lasting, fruitful business relationships. His mottos are “swim or drown” and “AB test everything.” Building the Infrastructure for Decentralized Identity within the Metaverse,  Enjin Rene Stefancic

Sophie Watts Executive Chair and Co-founderSophie is a global media executive with a focus on venture creation for A-list stars, including “Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League,” the sports enterprise which, in November 2020, staged the Tyson-Jones fight, the 8th most profitable pay-per-view event of all time. Previously, Watts served as the President of STX Entertainment, playing an instrumental role in the company’s formation and growth, including the establishment of a fully-fledged movie studio, and both reality and scripted TV studios. During her tenure, STX grew from a start-up into a multi-billion-dollar media company that includes several studios, and which secured capital from investors including private equity firms TPG and China-based Hony Capital; Tencent, the Chinese internet giant; Liberty Global, the media conglomerate; and PCCW, the global telecommunications provider. Early in her career, Watts worked in music film, videos and programming in London. She moved to Los Angeles in 2007, where she was a producer and financier on film projects including the award-winning documentary Bully, and the NBC show “State of Affairs”. Watts has been named one of Hollywood’s Top Dealmakers by Variety, listed in Fortune magazine’s 40 under 40, and featured in Variety’s Power of Women Report, Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power100, and in ELLE magazine’s power list.

Arabella Proffer Arabella Proffer is a visual artist based in Cleveland. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan and bred in Southern California, she has a BFA from CalArts. Her loose narrative themes revolve around the history of medicine, psychedelic visions, and biomorphic organisms. She delves into the practice of oil painting, tying together its relationships to nature, biology, and emerging sciences. Arabella’s work appears in over 80 private collections and she participates in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, SF Weekly, The Plain Dealer, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, The Harvard Gazette, NPR, Hektoen International Medical Journal, The Portland Review and more. Her achievements have been recognized by the Ohio House and Senate. She has received grants from Ohio Arts Council, Akron Soul Train residency, Rauschenberg Award, Andy Warhol Foundation Satellite Award, and ArtsCleveland. She balances a studio practice of commissions, transcendental painting, drawing crude comics for cheap laughs, all while living with terminal cancer.

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 Arabella Proffer (Tree Trunk), Graham Wallington (Wild Earth TV), Sophie Watts (executive producer and Mike Tyson’s Legends League), Paddy Power (Paddy Power), and Stephanie Ishler (Retro Cats NFTs).

Closing the Poverty Gap by Repurposing Blockchain for Good to Help People Participate in the 4th Industrial Revolution Helen Hai Helen is the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Goodwill Ambassador for Industrialization in Africa. She is heading the Binance Blockchain Charity Foundation with the mandate to use Blockchain for Social Good. Ambassador Hai was named a 2015 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and she is the co-chair of the Global Future Council on the Future of Consumption for the World Economic Forum. Ambassador Hai was named 2017 Wu Fellow by UC Berkeley, Global Visionary by UBS, and she was also featured on the "Ones to Watch" for Bloomberg's 50 People Who Shaped 2018 in Unexpected Ways list.

About Philip Colbert Graduating with an MA in Philosophy from St. Andrews University, Colbert’s work has received international acclaim in museums and galleries worldwide for his energetic new approach to painting and pop theory. Following on from early Pop painters such as Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist. Colbert’s paintings cross high art themes from old master paintings and contemporary art theory with everyday symbols of mass contemporary culture, all narrated through the eyes of Colbert’s cartoon Lobster alter ego. He has been championed as a contemporary Pop master by art world figures such as Charles Saatchi & Simon de Pury.

Serge Gianchandani is the Co-founder of Metamall. Serge is a serial entrepreneur with twelve patents on 3D and VR imagery. He founded Egg Solution Optronics. In 2001 Serge became the leader in immersive technology. The company was initially based in France and later was acquired by a US technology group. He also co-founded Moksha and scaled from zero to $20 million with 300+ clients across the globe like Amazon,Kmart, Flipkart etc. Serge sold his 1st company to Wave Com (Anant Nahata) the owner of KOOVS.

How Quentin Tarantino' 'Pulp Fiction' Inspired this U.S. Army Veteran to create a Celebrity NFT and Metaverse Collectible and Consulting Business Joey Dunne is currently fully immersed in the Metaverse by manufacturing, buying and selling NFT’s(Non-Fungible Tokens) as an anonymous artist, a self-proclaimed expert Celebrity NFT drop blogger named LeDrop WithCheese, and a trader of cryptocurrencies. Joey owns a massive NFT collection across dozens of blockchains and is a partner in a Metaverse company with David Seidman, ESQ, named Fake Himbos, LLC. Together, they specialize in Metaverse onboarding and monetization for artist/director/musician/celebrity clients. LeDrop WithCheese is a blog writer and NFT artist who rates Celebrity NFT drops in advance of their releases, with honest reviews distributed across these channels: LeDropWithCheese.com, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Tik Tok and Giphy. Previously, Joey Dunne was featured on the front page of the Chicago Tribune and on Prime Time with Brian Williams for his Christmas Sweater Depot company (2011-2015) based out of Chicago that featured 2 storefronts and an online shop. Joey was also the managing partner for Grace Street Tap from 2010-2012 and is a DePaul University and Gordon Tech Alumni.