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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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50:33

Craig J. Lewis, Founder/CEO of Gig Wage

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2021/09/14

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Craig J. Lewis, the Founder and CEO of Gig Wage, a venture capital backed SaaS company that’s raised $16.45 million to-date to meet the demands of the future workforce and to build modern payment tools for it. Investors have included Steve Case (Founder of AOL) and his Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Venture Fund, Foundry Group, Green Dot Corp. (NYSE: GDOT), and more. In an industry where forward thinking is a rarity, Craig’s vision for innovation has pushed

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57:33

Brian Shniderman, CEO of Opy, CSO of Openpay

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2021/09/08

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Brian Shniderman, CEO of Opy and Chief Strategy Officer of Openpay. With over 30 years focused on payments of every kind, between all types of parties, and in almost every major country, Brian has been a frequent contributor to banking journals, has published numerous white papers addressing trends, threats, and strategic opportunities in banking and payments, and has been published and featured in Forbes, Fortune, CNN, The Business Standard, Dow Jones,

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52:32

Robert Materazzi, CEO of Lukka

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2021/09/07

In this episode, Mike Townsend sits down with Robert Materazzi, the CEO of Lukka. Prior to joining Lukka, he served as Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, specializing in large risk, regulatory, and cybersecurity-driven technology implementations for traditional financial institutions and foreign banking organizations. Robert also led the PwC Advisory Veterans Recruiting and Mentorship Initiative. Prior to PwC, Robert served in the United States Marine Corps for nine years as an Officer and AH-1W

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39:35

James Simpson, Founder, mStable

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2021/09/06

In this episode, Tegan Kline interviews James Simpson, the founder of mStable, a stablecoin automated market maker on Ethereum and Polygon. Before founding mStable, James was the first employee at Australian crypto hedge fund Apollo Capital, worked as a management consultant at KPMG, Shanghai, and later as a data analyst at KPMG, Melbourne. James studied foreign policy and economics at the University of Melbourne at Fudan University, Shanghai.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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63:30

Steven Chan, Senior Director of Government Relations,...

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2021/09/05

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Steven Xavier Chan, the senior director and regional head of government relations, Asia-Pacific, for Paypal Inc. Based in Singapore, he leads government advocacy, strategy, and outreach efforts in the region. Steven has more than 20 years of combined government and industry experience in international trade and public policy. Prior to joining Paypal in August 2018, he was the managing director and regional head of regulatory, industry and government affairs

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85:47

Arthur Breitman, Co-founder of Tezos

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2021/08/29

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Arthur Breitman, Co-founder of Tezos. Arthur is an early architect of the Tezos protocol. Prior to becoming involved in Tezos full time, he worked at X and Waymo on self-driving cars. In his earlier career, he worked as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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54:14

Thejo Kote, Founder/CEO of Airbase

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2021/08/26

In this episode, Mike Townsend sits down with Thejo Kote, the Founder/CEO of Airbase. He was Co-Founder & CEO of Automatic, and of NextDrop. Prior to this, he worked as an Associate at Primera Capital. He served as Senior Engineer at Netcore Solutions and was the Software Engineer at Infosys Technologies Limited. He holds a Master’s degree from the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological

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51:03

Raullen Chai, Founder and CEO of IoTeX

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2021/08/25

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Raullen Chai, Founder & CEO of IoTeX. After stints in cybersecurity and blockchain at Uber and Google, Raullen is now CEO of IoTex. He leads a global team of cryptologists, blockchain experts, and IoT specialists in building the Trusted Internet of Things.Founded as an open-source project in 2017, IoTeX is building bridges across the Connected World, leveraging blockchain technology and in-house hardware devices to provide secure and interoperable

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51:53

Hart Lambur, Co-founder of UMA

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2021/08/15

In this episode, Tegan Kline sits down with Hart Lambur, the co-founder of UMA, a decentralized financial contracts platform built to enable Universal Market Access. Hart studied computer science before working as an interest rate trader at Goldman Sachs through the financial crisis. In 2013 he co-founded Openfolio, a personal finance tracking platform that was acquired in 2017 by a financial planning firm. He now leads a team of financial contract and oracle design researchers at UMA.Learn more

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55:49

Brendan Asselstine, CTO of PoolTogether Inc.

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2021/08/13

In this episode, Tegan Kline speaks with Brendan Asselstine, the co-founder of PoolTogether, a prize savings game built on Ethereum. Prior to that, Brendan ran an Ethereum dev consultancy and has been building products for over ten years.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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52:27

Ricardo Pero, CEO of SellersFunding

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2021/08/05

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Ricardo Pero, Chief Executive Officer of SellersFunding. Ricardo received an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and has 20+ years of experience in Corporate Treasury and Wealth and Asset Management. He has previously held positions at Citi, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, and most recently served as an Executive Director at JPMorgan from 2010 to 2016. As an investor and advisor to companies in the U.S. and Latin America, his company is helping start-up

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58:02

Sergey Savastiouk, CEO and Founder of Tickeron

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2021/08/04

In our latest episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sergey Savastiouk, the CEO and founder of Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering unparalleled trading insights and analysis for market traders. Sergey is a thought leader in financial technology, specializing in artificial intelligence. Sergey was raised in Russia and entered the AI space when he earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics, moved to the Silicon Valley area, and began teaching at Santa Clara University. He began

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57:14

Bryan Myint, Co-Founder of Republic Crypto

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2021/08/02

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Bryan Myint, the co-founder of Republic Crypto. Republic Crypto is the first vetted, compliant, and inclusive blockchain financing and investment platform. Bryan is also a Venture Partner at Outliers Fund and Founding Partner of Taureon Capital, a digital asset hedge fund. As an investor, he has seeded early DeFi projects such as 0x Protocol, REN, and Ethlend (now AAVE). Bryan is also an active mentor and advisor to Near Protocol's Open Web Collective,

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56:51

Maryanne M Morrow, CEO 9th Gear Technologies

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2021/07/30

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Maryanne M Morrow, CEO of 9th Gear Technologies. Maryanne brings more than 25 years as a corporate veteran in the financial, marketing and advertising industries to her role as founder and CEO of 9th Gear Technologies where she is responsible for leading corporate strategy, scaling the company and investor relations. She is a mutual funds specialist, launching a family of funds and architecting fee-based asset management platforms for banks, broker dealers

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66:03

William Li, CEO, Akulaku

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2021/07/16

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with William Li, the CEO and co-founder of Akulaku, a leading financial technology company improving the quality of life in Southeast Asia through advancement of digital financial services. Akulaku offers customers a full suite of financial services, including consumer financing, e-commerce, digital investments, digital banking and insurance brokerage. Previously, William served as CEO of Silvrr E-Commerce. William holds a B.A. in Law from Tsinghua University

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52:56

Chris Cox, COO of Apiture

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2021/06/24

In this episode, Mike Townsend sits down with Chris Cox, the Chief Operating Officer of Apiture. Chris oversees all aspects of business operations. Previously, Chris was the General Manager of First Data’s digital banking business. He also led mobile payment product development efforts at First Data. Prior to joining First Data, Chris was a Principal Consultant at Diamond Management & Technology Consultants and a Staff Consultant at CSC Consulting. Chris has more than 20 years of experience in

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61:11

Sean De Clercq, CEO of Kickfurther

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2021/06/21

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Sean De Clercq, Founder Kickfurther. Sean founded Kickfurther when he had to deal with the inventory finance problem with a previous merchandising company. Now he's solving that problem for other entrepreneurs.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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59:11

Arjun Bhuptani, Founder of Connext

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2021/06/20

In this episode, Tegan Kline speaks with Arjun Bhuptani, one of the founders of and project lead at Connext.Connext is building a network for fast, frequent interactions between chains that is growing rapidly and is being used by top tier projects like the Graph, Polygon, and Arbitrum.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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46:28

Nigel Walsh, MD, Insurance at Google Cloud

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2021/06/16

In this episode, Mike Townsend speaks with Nigel Walsh, the Managing Director for Insurance at Google Cloud, responsible for leading the firm's approach to Insurance, leveraging the best in market capability from Google's Cloud proposition, addressing mission critical Insurance challenges, from claims and underwriting to leveraging the company's AI and ML know-how - driving better business outcomes. Nigel also works with the broader Alphabet companies to bring their experience and

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52:35

Matthew Beecher, Matthew Beecher, CEO of Neocova

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2021/06/14

In this episode, Mike Townsend interviews Matthew Beecher, CEO of Neocova. Matt is an entrepreneur, business-builder, and investor with a 30-year track record of success in both public and private markets. From founding and driving growth and scale in fintech and financial services to leading companies that have realized returns of $1 billion. Prior to Neocova, Beecher served as CEO of Austin-based fintech, Vault. Before Vault, Beecher was co-founder and President of Redstar Ventures, a venture

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