Crypto Valley Association Podcast

Sheraz Ahmed

The Crypto Valley Association is an independent, government-supported association established to take full advantage of Switzerland’s strengths to build the world’s leading blockchain and cryptographic technologies ecosystem. Hosted by Sheraz Ahmed, the Crypto Valley Association Podcast brings together industry leaders to voice their perspectives on this fast moving environment. It gives an overview to all community members, experts and novice alike, on the use cases making a real impact and their vision for the future of this innovative technology!

  1. 10/08/2021

    Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki | Partner & Chief Revenue Officer of Copper

    Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki Prior to Copper, Boris held various business development and relationship management roles in the financial services and fin-tech industries. With over 15 years of experience in traditional finance, both on the buy and sell sides, Boris has built and leads Copper's global sales strategy. Copper Copper provides secure infrastructure for the institutional digital asset investment community. All products and services are underpinned by an award-winning custody application, which is built using multi-party computation (MPC) encryption and can be configured to support cold, warm, and hot wallet solutions. Asset managers are further protected by the ClearLoop network, which enables off-exchange trading and settlement at tier-1 digital asset exchanges. An offering enhanced by the availability of uncollateralised lending. Copper's secure wallet architecture is available as a standalone application, a mobile app, and a browser extension for smart contract signing.

    28 min

  2. 09/30/2021

    Saro McKenna | CEO & Co-Founder of Dacoco

    Dacoco  Creator of Alien Worlds, one of the largest blockchain apps in the world by users. Alien Worlds is a Play to Earn, NFT Metaverse that simulates economic competition and collaboration between players. Players compete for Trilium (TLM), to control competing Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (“Planet DAOs”), to go on missions and to gain access to additional gameplay. Dacoco believes the Metaverse is the next iteration of our social lives online, in which participants are owner creators, rather than consumers and providers of data. Saro McKenna Saro has bridged traditional business practices with decentralised communities and concepts since the early days of cryptocurrency. A key contributor of EOSDAC, Saro is now pioneering an open, social Metaverse.

    30 min

  3. 09/23/2021

    Iana Dimitrova | Chief Executive of OpenPayd

    Iana Dimitrova Iana sets the strategic direction and vision for OpenPayd and leads the Executive Team. She has extensive experience in the fintech and payments industries. Prior to joining OpenPayd, Iana served in positions with increasing responsibility at Paysafe and previous to that she was working in private practice as a corporate lawyer. Iana holds a masters in European Economics law and ICT Law from the University of Strasbourg and an Executive MBA from the London Business School. OpenPayd  The leading global payments and banking-as-a-service platform for the digital economy. OpenPayd’s clients are delivering seamless user experiences and building a new generation of digital products, all through embedded financial services. OpenPayd’s platform unlocks an ecosystem of financial services, delivering accounts, FX, international and domestic payments, acquiring and Open Banking services globally via single API integration. With a growing network of licenses across the UK, Europe and North America, OpenPayd is providing the banking and payment solutions digital businesses need to thrive.

    22 min

  4. 09/16/2021

    Omar Syed | Co-Founder & Blockchain Architect of Shardus

    Omar Syed Over the past three decades, Omar has been involved with helping large organizations such as NASA, Yahoo, and Zynga build scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems for mission-critical applications. Omar has also been involved with several startups including the first matrimonial website and the first stock sentiment analysis website. In early 2016 he started Unblocked Inc., a blockchain consultancy company. In 2017 he organized the Shardus project to build a linearly scalable blockchain. Omar holds a B.S. and M.S. from Case Western Reserve University with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. Omar along with his son Aamir invented the strategy board game Arimaa and offered the Arimaa Challenge Prize to promote breakthrough research in AI. Omar’s long term vision is a world where everyone receives a UBI based on a stable cryptocurrency. Shardus  Building distributed ledger software to remedy the problems of traditional blockchains — scalability, decentralization and efficiency. The technology being developed will use compute and state sharding to accommodate billions of daily active users, allowing for global-scale decentralized networks. The first network to be launched using this technology will be a payment network and coin called Liberdus.

    26 min

  5. 09/09/2021

    Michael Chrisment | CEO of Farmer Connect

    Michael Chrisment Michael has been leading Farmer Connect as CEO since June 2020, championing the mission to humanize consumption through technology. He has an extensive background in marketing, media, and FMCG, and he brings a deep understanding of the challenges in coffee and chocolate industries, having worked for global consumer companies such as Nestlé and Mondelēz. Michael is fascinated by tech, great food, and how they can be brought together. Farmer Connect Global, cutting edge, end-to-end, and collaborative supply chain technology provider that promotes fair and transparent agriculture. farmer connect® enables a transparent, traceable, sustainable and efficient food supply chain - connecting farmers to consumers, and everyone in between.

    23 min

  6. 09/02/2021

    Alejandro De La Torre | VP of Poolin

    Alejandro De La Torre Over 5 years of experience in the bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining industry. Former co-founder of BTC.com & BD manager at Blocktrail. Poolin Leader in bitcoin mining pools and a prominent bitcoin mining farm operator with a mission to redefine the mining industry with the best in-house knowledge and expertise, excellent customer support, and an unwavering focus to bring decentralization to all.

    27 min

  7. 08/26/2021

    Shirly Valge | Chief Operating Officer of Velas Network

    Shirly Valge COO of Velas Network AG, is an experienced entrepreneur and business development professional with a demonstrated history of working in the crypto industry. She is skilled in global team management, compliance, administrative tasks under the Swiss and EU jurisdiction, blockchain and tokenomics, investor relations, and marketing/PR. Velas Network Swiss headquartered technology company, that is building an open-sourced blockchain ecosystem of services and products, aiming to combine the best qualities of both centralized and decentralized solutions. It involves researching state-of-the-art cryptography, developing consensus protocol and designing intuitive user interfaces providing developers, enterprises and people worldwide to create and join an easily accessible, transparent and community-governed ecosystem for web 3.0

    20 min

  8. 08/19/2021

    Claus Skaaning | Co-Founder & CEO of DigiShares

    Claus Skaaning With a PhD in computer science and a background as a researcher in AI, he has taken out 7 patents. Claus's first startup was focused on AI. Since then he has founded several companies and also worked as an advisor and mentor for many research-based startups. In 2018 he co-founded DigiShares and has since been the CEO. He is a believer in the vision behind blockchain technology and works to increase democratization, disintermediation and self-sovereignty of assets DigiShares  Founded in 2018 to develop asset management software to help real estate developers digitize and automate, reduce administrative cost, fractionalize to reach retain investors - and achieve a much higher degree of liquidity through the built-in marketplace. Our software is based on blockchain and tokenization to facilitate peer-to-peer trading and interoperability with the global crypto ecosystem.

    24 min
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The Crypto Valley Association is an independent, government-supported association established to take full advantage of Switzerland’s strengths to build the world’s leading blockchain and cryptographic technologies ecosystem. Hosted by Sheraz Ahmed, the Crypto Valley Association Podcast brings together industry leaders to voice their perspectives on this fast moving environment. It gives an overview to all community members, experts and novice alike, on the use cases making a real impact and their vision for the future of this innovative technology!

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