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Geoff McCabe - About the Founder Born in 1968 - 53 Years old Master’s Degree in Physics / Materials Science, from UCF https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffmccabe Areas of expertise:  Crypto/Blockchain, VR/Metaverse, Branding & Marketing, Product and Graphic Design, Permaculture and Sustainability, Travel/Hotel, Real Estate, Retail, Leadership Values:  Geoff is a visionary and strong empath who believes in kindness, integrity, and love, as core values that are imbued into everything he does.  He entered the cryptocurrency space to help make the world a better place by giving the power of money to the people through decentralization. The Divi Project He is Co-founder and  Chairman of The Divi Project, a $190 million market cap cryptocurrency, built from a raise of only $2.6 million. Proven Leadership - Divi has gone on to be one of the most successful ICOs of all time, with a 92x growth in value from its 2018 blockchain launch, far exceeding the market cap growth of both Bitcoin and Ethereum.  $DIVI reached as high as #65 on CMC, while at a lower market cap than it has today. LaLiga Partnership - Divi currently has LaLiga, the second-largest football league in the world as a partner, and is in negotiation with many more world-famous brands that see the value in our unique, user-friendly approach to crypto. Visionary Leadership and Entrepreneurial History Geoff is considered a visionary in the blockchain space and has excelled in every aspect of his long career as an innovator and product designer for his wide variety of companies. At age 23, he founded what became, in three years, a $12m/year product design and manufacturing company “Seventh Sense Inc” with 1000+ employees in his factory in China, 200+ sales agents around the world, and 30 retail stores. After selling Seventh Sense in 2004, Geoff moved to Costa Rica and started a real estate company and Anamaya Resort, a boutique yoga and wellness center, both of which are still successfully running today while Geoff pursues his passion for innovative tech.

James Ryan is Co-Founder and CEO OmGeneum, ÉlpisÉremo, and ARMADYNE.. He has over 25 years expertise in pioneering research, development and clinical translation of cutting-edge cellular regenerative medicine technology. Established Japans first pluripotent stem cell company (Jimmy’s Invest-ment Group “JIG”) for his son, Jimmy. In 2000 partnered with RGI (Reproductive Genetics Institute). In 2004 Cofounded Asclepius Thera-peutics, a venture with Dr. Yury Verlinsky, and served as the CEO, to establish the world’s first patient-specific pluripotent somatic stem Cell reprogram-ming company. (STEMBRID).

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Andrea Berry is Head of Development at Theta Labs – the brains behind the leading chain for media and entertainment, Theta Network – and a former Director at Vimeo. Andrea’s entire career has lived and breathed video streaming. She joined Kaltura – the world’s first open-source video platform – where she was early in identifying the transformation from linear to digital video, and helped launch the first direct-to-consumer live-music  OTT service, Qello Concerts, a team she would join years later to help transform it into a white-label b2b platform, Qello Media Services. She later joined Vimeo as their first strategic sales director, where she built and implemented the channel sales program  in addition to launching dozens of OTT channels across various industries.

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Rob Viglione is the co-founder and CEO of Horizen Labs, as well as theco-founder and team lead of the Zen Blockchain Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance, an MBA in Finance and Marketing, and a Bachelor's in Physics & Applied Mathematics. Previously he has been an advisor to Aave, HeroEngine, and worked as a software project manager for the U.S. Air Force.

Kurt Ivy is a co-founder at Simple Crypto PR, Head of PR for SHOPX, Marketing Advisor for Altar, has helped over 20 projects launch, and has contributed writing to Entrepreneur, CoinTelegraph, Be[In]Crypto, the  Defiant, Apple News, Grit Daily, Blocktelegraph, Altcoin Buzz, TechBullion,  and Hackernoon.

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Following hot on the heels of Kava's latest partnership announcement with Chainlink, Irish Tech New's crypto expert, Jamil Hassan caught up with Brian Kerr from Kava to learn more about it all. Kava, built on the Cosmos SDK, is quickly gaining momentum as the most trusted DeFi platform for institutional clients around the world. Kava plans to take another major step forward towards that end through an integration with Cosmos’s recently launched Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol (IBC). Kava will then use IBC to make Chainlink's widely used and secure decentralized data feeds available to blockchains across the wider Cosmos ecosystem. Kava To Use IBC to Make Chainlink Data Available Across Cosmos More about Brian Kerr Brian started his career as Founder and CEO of Fnatic Gear, a company that Forbes valued at $175 Million, makes peripherals and hardware, designed by the world's best Gamers. As a gamer himself he found value in the premise of NFTs and gaming which lead him to the world of crypto. Soon he saw the demand for open banking where he created Kava, a decentralized finance platform for crypto. About Brian: https://disruptmagazine.com/kava-ceo-brian-kerr-shares-the-top-five-crypto-trends/

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. Jamil catches up with Jonny Fry to learn more about his passion for blockchain and what he is currently working on. Jonny Fry, co-founder and CEO of TeamBlockchain Ltd, is a Blockchain, Digital Assets and funds specialist. He founded, and was the CEO for over 20 years, of Premier Asset Management Plc, a mutual fund company which he floated on the London Stock Exchange. His recent focus has been on the dynamics of financial innovation, advising organisations on how Blockchain and Digital Assets are being used commercially. He works closely with a number of professional firms, such as accountants and lawyers, advising their clients on corporate strategy and adoption of Blockchain technology. Jonny gives 20+ hours of his time weekly to research and write, an analysis of some of the developments in the Blockchain and Digital Asset sectors. This analysis, called Digital Bytes is used globally by a variety of professional advisors, corporate brokers, accountants, lawyers, business schools, universities, trade bodies and corporations and forms the basis of the Digital Bytes show on Blockchain radio which is broadcasted to over 140 countries. He is Non-Executive Chairman of Gemini Investment Management Ltd, which owns a Dublin-based fund hosting platform, regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. As Co-founder of The British Blockchain Frontier Technology Association (BBFTA). He is an advisor for several companies helping them with their strategic growth and managing corporate and reputational risk.