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Sathvik Vishwanath, CEO of Unocoin Jun 07, 2022

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Sathvik Vishwanath, an MBA from Melbourne Business School, is now a successful entrepreneur and has always put his heart into innovative & disruptive technology! His journey started in 2008 with VentureNext offering scripting services in a virtual world called SecondLife. After being acquainted with bitcoin in 2013, he launched a bitcoin buy/sell service called Unocoin which has now evolved into a Super App for Crypto. The company now serves 2M customers & operates an exchange with 80+ cryptos.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Saponaro, CEO of The Divi Project May 26, 2022

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Nick Saponaro is a software developer, Speaker, Musician, and blockchain personality. He is the Chief Information Officer and Co-founder of The Divi Porject. He is also a frequent speaker at blockchain conferences.Nick is an entrepreneur, crypto enthusiast, and keynote speaker who is regularly featured in the media talking about crypto-related issues. Media appearances include Cheddar, CNBC, Quartz, Investing.com, Nasdaq.com, and CoinTelegraph.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe De Pinto, Co-Founder of Haste Arcade May 25, 2022

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Joe De Pinto was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. After spending 4 years playing professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox farm system, he co-founded his first venture, Barpay, in 2015 with Daniel Wagner.In January 2021, along with Wagner, he co-founded Haste, the world’s first Instant Leaderboard Payout arcade. De Pinto’s vision for Haste is to have the platform serve as a fun and entertaining visual representation of micro transactions, and how they can empower new business models.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Kong, CEO, Fantom Foundation May 24, 2022

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Michael Kong is the Chief Executive Officer of Fantom. He has a background in Finance and Information Technology from the University of Sydney, where he published papers on smart contract security. He worked as the first full-time engineer for Block8, a blockchain development company in Sydney, and later founded one of Australia’s first funds in digital assets (now Trovio Group).Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Martin Froehler, CEO of Morpher May 23, 2022

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Martin Froehler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morpher. He is a mathematician, veteran quant, and former hedge fund manager. Prior to Morpher, Martin was managing director of a quantitative research firm in Zürich and CEO of a decentralized quantitative hedge fund in Silicon Valley. Martin experienced the numerous inefficiencies of the trading industry first-hand and founded Morpher to democratize investing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gabriele Musella, CEO Co-Founder of Coinrule May 20, 2022

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Entrepreneur and C-Level Product Lead with over 20 years experience in Digital Innovation, Business Design, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Fintech, Future of Money, Team Leadership, Venture Creation, Growth, CxO, C-Level, Strategy, UX, Agile, Lean, Data, FCA.✔ Serial Entrepreneur, Y-Combinator Alumni, 3x fundraiser, leading teams of 30+✔ Mentor at Google, Startupbootcamp, Zilliqa, TechItalia, Virgin - Advisor at Harvard✔ International professional experience in UK - Finland - Italy - Hungary - Czechia - US✔ Facilitated conferences at MIT - TEDx - DMI - UC Berkeley - OECD✔ Featured Interviewed on Forbes, Guardian, Business Insider, Evening Standards, etc✔ Guest Lecturer at the Business Schools: ESADE (Spain) - ESCP (France)Expertise✔ Startups, PRODUCT leadership, Growth, VENTURE creation, PMF, product STRATEGY✔ Business design, INNOVATION, customer mapping, HCD, Design, PM, Datavis✔ Team leadership, C-Level, CxO, Stakeholders management, OKr, AGILE, Scrum, LeanNotable companies I worked with includeVodafone, Lloyds Banking Group, IBM, Nokia Siemens, HSBC, MoJ, British Government, Native design, Mirum, Coinrule, PayPal, Halifax, WPP, Harvard, Publicis, MIT, Public Health England, NHS, Aviva, MKB FintechLab, UBS BankLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Markus Levin, Co-Founder at XYO May 13, 2022

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Markus Levin is the Co-Founder of XYO, the world’s first blockchain geospatial oracle network backed with cryptography that anonymously collects and validates data with a geographic component.Markus has more than 15 years experience in building, growing and selling companies in hyper-growth industries around the globe. Markus focuses on maximizing institutional potential through the implementation of innovative data-driven solutions. Markus mined his first Bitcoin in 2013 and has been captivated by blockchain technologies ever since.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Arjun Bhuptani, Founder of Connext May 12, 2022

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Arjun is one of the founders of Connext, the interoperability protocol for L2 Ethereum. Connext enables moving value and calldata between EVM chains without introducing trust assumptions. It is also leveraged by infrastructure networks like the Graph for ultra-scalable microtransactions.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alejandro Gutierrez, CEO of Defactor May 11, 2022

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Alejandro has more than 20 years of experience in the supply chain management space and lately has been working in the Trade Tech space and Supply chain finance space.In 2019, Alejandro joined Consolfreight as co-founder, and in 2020, Consolfreight became one of the pioneers of the digitisation and collateralisation of Real World Assets using De-Fi as a main source of funding for factoring and trade finance services. Within a year Alejandro became pivotal to close important partnerships with big hitters in the industry like Centrifuge and Maker and achieved $7.5M+ in transactions funded. Currently, he is the Cofunder and Operations Lead of the Defactor a project focused on bridging the gap between DeFi liquidity and real world asset originators.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Weiksner, Founder & CEO of Pocketful of Quarters May 10, 2022

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An avid business leader, Michael Weiksner is the founder and CEO of Pocketful of Quarters (POQ. He has invested in multiple unicorns, including previously as General Partner at Rostrum Capital, where he helped invest in early stage tech companies. Endowed with an entrepreneurial spirit, he also founded EndlessTV and E-thePeople.org. He is currently leading POQ’s product and technology development as the company looks to unleash the power of gameplay with one universal, interoperable game token on the blockchain for players.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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