Interviews
Artem Ponomarev, Founder & CEO of XPlace – Interview Series
Artem Ponomarev, Founder & CEO of XPlace, is a fintech entrepreneur and investor with experience spanning digital assets, venture capital, lending, and financial services. Prior to founding XPlace in 2025, he co-founded Alvos, a digital lending fintech, and held investment…
Alex Witt, Founding General Partner at Verda Ventures – Interview Series
Alex Witt, Founding General Partner at Verda Ventures, is an investor and fintech executive with experience spanning venture capital, digital assets, blockchain infrastructure, and traditional finance. Before Verda Ventures, Witt served as Chief Financial Officer at Celo, where he helped…
Bernardo Brites, CEO and Co-Founder of Trace Finance – Interview Series
Bernardo Brites, CEO and Co-Founder of Trace Finance, is a Brazilian entrepreneur and fintech executive with deep experience across cross-border payments, digital assets, and financial infrastructure. He co-founded Trace Finance in 2020 and has led the company as CEO as…
Mikhail Gromov, CTO of the Bir Ecosystem – Interview Series
Mikhail Gromov, CTO of the Bir Ecosystem, is a technology and financial services executive with more than two decades of experience building digital banking platforms, large-scale technology organizations, and integrated digital ecosystems. At Bir, he leads the technology and platform…
Lynne Bairstow, Co-Founder of Build With Bitcoin, Base Layer Advisors, and Mita Tech Talks – Interview Series
Lynne Bairstow, Co-Founder of Build With Bitcoin, Base Layer Advisors, and Mita Tech Talks, is an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor with a career spanning traditional finance, venture capital, technology, and Bitcoin. After beginning her career on Wall Street at Merrill…
Alvin Kan, COO of Bitget Wallet – Interview Series
Alvin Kan, Chief Operating Officer of Bitget Wallet, is an experienced technology and Web3 executive with a background spanning blockchain ecosystem development, data analytics, business development, and global operations. He joined Bitget Wallet as COO in November 2023, following two…
Daniel Wagner, Director of Product and Engineering at Q2 – Interview Series
Daniel Wagner, Director of Product and Engineering at Q2, is an experienced technology and product leader with a background spanning artificial intelligence, machine learning, data platforms, digital banking, and enterprise software delivery. Before joining Q2 through its acquisition of Sensibill,…
Aurélien Bonnel, CTO and Founder of N3XT – Interview Series
Aurélien Bonnel, Chief Technical Officer and Founder of N3XT, is a financial technology executive and engineer with more than 14 years of experience building secure, real-time banking, payments, and capital markets infrastructure. Before founding N3XT, he held senior engineering roles…
Dave Rodman, Managing Partner, The Rodman Law Group – Interview Series
Dave Rodman, Managing Partner, The Rodman Law Group, is an attorney whose career has focused on emerging and highly regulated industries, including digital assets, Web3, cannabis, psychedelics, and venture capital. As head of the firm’s emerging companies and venture capital…
Barry Plunkett, Co-CEO and Co-Founder at Cosmos Labs – Interview Series
Barry Plunkett, Co-CEO and Co-Founder at Cosmos Labs, is an entrepreneur and researcher focused on building blockchain infrastructure for institutional finance. Before joining Cosmos Labs in January 2025, he co-founded and led Skip, a blockchain infrastructure company that developed tools…
Joshua Riezman, Chief Legal and Strategy Officer at GSR – Interview Series
Joshua Riezman is Chief Legal and Strategy Officer at GSR, a leading digital asset market maker and trading firm, and a Board Director of Lite Strategy, Inc . With nearly two decades of legal and financial services experience, he has…
Joel Winteregg, CEO of Vyntra – Interview Series
Joel Winteregg, CEO of Vyntra, is a financial technology executive and software engineer with nearly two decades of experience developing technology for fraud prevention, financial crime detection, and transaction security. Before taking the helm at Vyntra in June 2025, he…
Jay File, CEO & CFO, Lite Strategy, Inc. (Nasdaq: LITS) – Interview Series
Jay File, CEO & CFO of Lite Strategy, Inc. brings more than three decades of leadership experience spanning public accounting, corporate finance, capital markets, and publicly traded companies. A Certified Public Accountant by training, he began his career at Arthur…
Ardes Johnson, CEO of NeoVolta – Interview Series
Ardes Johnson, CEO of NeoVolta , is an experienced energy and clean technology executive with a background spanning solar, battery storage, power infrastructure, and strategic sales leadership. He was appointed CEO of NeoVolta in April 2024 after serving as President…
Faryam Asif, Chief Technology Officer at Shufti – Interview Series
Faryam Asif, Chief Technology Officer at Shufti is a technology executive specializing in AI-powered identity verification, fraud prevention, and secure digital onboarding. Since joining Shufti as a software developer in 2018, he has progressed through multiple leadership roles before becoming…
