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Around the Coin

Stephen Sargeant and Mike Townsend

The mission behind Around The Coin podcast is to offer entrepreneurs an alternative perspective for growing their business in and around the payment industry.

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58:22

Alan Vey, Founder of Aventus Network

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2022/08/24

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

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54:55

Sean Sanders, Founder and CEO of Revix

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2022/08/23

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

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55:07

Scott Lawin, CEO of Candy Digital

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2022/08/22

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

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47:35

Saeed Aldarmaki, CEO of Sheesha Finance

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2022/08/20

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

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50:03

John Tait, Global MD of Payments Market at TNS

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2022/08/18

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with John Tait who is the Global Managing Director of the Payments Market Business at Transaction Network Services (TNS), a worldwide provider of payments solutions to global companies in the most mission-critical industries. In his role, John is responsible for identifying and driving growth across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions and is focused on meeting the unique requirements of its customers. His executive experience includes business

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82:32

Dawn Newton, COO and Co-Founder of Netki

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2022/08/17

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Dawn Newton, COO and Co-Founder of Netki. An operation professional with 30 years of experience managing technical teams and growing innovative companies, Dawn Newton has successfully positioned herself as one of the premier operations executives at the forefront of emerging technical industries. From the early days of the internet to the booming blockchain industry, Dawn’s work has had a formative effect on today’s leading tech companies.Today, Dawn is the

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58:40

Nimit Sawhney, CEO of Voatz, Inc.

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2022/08/16

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Nimit Sawhney, the Co-Founder and CEO of Voatz, Inc, an elections platform that uses remote identity proofing, biometrics, and blockchain technology to enable end-to-end verifiable and accessible remote voting via smartphones and tablets. Voatz has run more than 90 elections serving 2+ million voters in partnership with major political parties at the state level, as well as with state/county governments, towns, cities, universities, and professional

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67:48

Morgan McKenney, CEO of Provenance Blockchain Foundation

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2022/08/15

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Morgan McKenney, the CEO of Provenance Blockchain Foundation, the leading public open-source blockchain for financial services, leveraged by over 50 financial institutions and operating at scale today with billions of dollars of digital financial assets transacted across lending, payments and marketplaces.Prior to Provenance, McKenney spent nearly twenty years at Citi in a range of senior executive operating roles globally, most recently as Chief Operating

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71:19

Jon Lerner, Co-Founder and CEO of CoinTracker

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2022/08/12

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Jon Lerner, the co-founder and CEO of CoinTracker, the market leader in portfolio tracking and tax compliance for cryptocurrency. At CoinTracker, Jon has had a relentless drive to create a strong, mission-driven company that has a culture of trust, transparency, a long-term mindset, and a high-quality bar. With Jon’s leadership, CoinTracker has emerged as a foundational product in crypto that enables users to track their portfolio and be tax compliant as

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74:31

Adi Ben-Ari, Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain

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2022/08/11

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Adi Ben-Ari, the Founder & CEO of Applied Blockchain, a fast-growing company of blockchain and cryptography experts founded in 2015 and based in London, UK, and Porto, Portugal. The company has developed and deployed dozens of blockchain applications from NFT marketplaces for famous artists to sophisticated DeFi protocols and Web3 dApps for clients ranging from Shell and Barclays to Chainlink and Algorand. The company is also building two blockchain

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64:26

Andrew Hoag, Founder and CEO of Teampay

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2022/08/10

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Andrew Hoag, Founder and CEO of Teampay, the first purchasing software built for modern, tech-enabled businesses. Prior to founding Teampay in 2016, Andrew Hoag founded or co-founded five companies, including urbantag, which tackled the trillion-dollar online-to-offline commerce market and was acquired in 2012. In addition to these entrepreneurial and leadership roles, he has served as an angel investor and advisor to various other companies, helping them

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71:11

Michael Pearl, Michael Pearl, COO of Kirobo

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2022/08/09

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Michael Pearl, COO of Kirobo - the safety net for DeFi. Michael is a fintech and blockchain executive with over a decade of experience managing teams and projects. A qualified attorney and former content chief at both Finance Magnates and Natural Intelligence, Michael has driven client outreach, acquisition, and retention in the fields of trading, personal finance, online banking, and blockchain technology. Michael eats, sleeps, and breathes financial

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66:23

Gabriel Gruber, Founder of Exactly Finance

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2022/08/08

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Gabriel Gruber, Founder of Exactly Finance. Exactly is building an open source, non-custodial protocol on Ethereum, that will bring fixed-income solutions for lenders and borrowers. Prior to Exactly Finance, he was a Co-Founder and CEO of Properati (acquired by OLX Group). He ran the Real Estate Startup for five years, launched in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Chile.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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94:02

Joel Lin, Contributor at CitaDAO

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2022/08/05

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Joel Lin, Contributor at CitaDAO - a marketplace for tokenized Real Estate. Joel is a Real Estate industry veteran with more than 12 years in institutional real estate and structured over $2 billion of deals. He is determined to bridge the real estate world into web3.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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71:29

Ken Kruger, Founder & CEO of Moon

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2022/08/04

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Ken Kruger, the founder and CEO of Moon, a crypto challenger bank and banking as a service platform. Prior to starting Moon, Ken ran a software consulting company that helped New York-based venture-backed startups build products. Previously he worked at Lockheed Martin as a software engineer and product manager on classified military projects. Ken has engineering degrees from Columbia University and Cornell University.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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61:30

Michael Messele, Co-Founder and CEO of Pillar Project

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2022/08/03

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Michael Messele, a co-founder and CEO of Pillar Project, the leading open source, non-custodial, and community-owned crypto wallet that facilitates seamless access to markets, DEXs, and provides storage for crypto assets across multiple chains. The wallet is powered by Etherspot - Pillar Project’s native SDK. Michael is an experienced campaigner within the technology space of the Financial Services industry coupled with a previous start-up exposure, and he

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58:39

Sonny Alves Dias, CTO of Pixelmatic

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2022/08/02

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sonny Alves Dias, CTO of Pixelmatic, a video game studio currently developing the title “Infinite Fleet” published by Exordium Limited. Infinite Fleet is an MMO strategy game set in space where players take command of a fleet of spaceships and play in cooperation against an alien race controlled by AI. The game also has crypto elements such as a cryptocurrency powering player-to-player trades and NFTs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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68:35

Sergey Gorbunov, CEO and Co-Founder of Axelar

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2022/08/01

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sergey Gorbunov, CEO and Co-Founder of Axelar, delivers secure cross-chain communication for Web3. Sergey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo (2016 - present). He is interested in building cryptographic primitives, protocols, and systems that enable new applications in untrusted and distributed environments. He received a Ph.D. from MIT, where he was a Microsoft Ph.D. fellow and MSc and BSc from UToronto. His Ph.D. dissertation was on

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67:51

Justin Banon, Co-Founder & CEO at Boson Protocol

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2022/07/28

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Justin Banon, co-founder and CEO of Boson Protocol, the decentralized network on which the future of commerce will run. Boson Protocol enables anyone to sell physical products in the metaverse as NFTs within the Decentraland space Boson Portal. He previously blitzscaled the Priority Pass Group to a $1Bn per annum revenue global rewards platform. With an academic background in physics, digital innovation and crypto, Justin applies first principles thinking to

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77:24

Matt Cutler, CEO & Co-Founder of Blocknative

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2022/07/28

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Matt Cutler, CEO and Co-Founder of Blocknative, the leading real-time infrastructure for monitoring pre-chain data, optimizing gas spend, and predicting transaction settlement. Matt has founded multiple technology startups, including Web analytics pioneer NetGenesis, which went public in 2000 at the height of the Web 1.0 boom. His most recent startup, the mobile collaboration platform Collaborate.com, was acquired by Cisco in 2013. Along the way, Matt has

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