Mihir Gandhi is a Partner in the Consulting practice of PwC India and leads the Payments Transformation practice. With close to 15 years of consulting experience, he has developed a strong business and technology consulting exposure in India and international markets including the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia. Mihir has been part of the digital payments growth story of India and has successfully led marquee projects. He has managed the core team to set up the domestic card scheme of India. He has assisted new private sector banks and payments banks for setup of payments products, guiding them on strategy through execution. His practice has recently published the “India Payments Handbook 2020-2025”, a thorough review of the payments ecosystem in India, and also puts out a regular newsletter on the subject. Please see our LinkedIn post for the Payments Handbook: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6750989437779505152 If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

María Guajardo's passion is to do the greatest good for those with the greatest need; and to develop the next generation of global leaders. She served as Vice-President at Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, as the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of International Liberal Arts, and is recipient of the Soka University Award of Highest Honor. Soka University is one of eleven private universities with the distinction of being named a Super Global University by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Maria served as a National Speaker and Trainer with a focus on Educational Equity, Leadership and Inclusive Excellence. Previously, as the executive director of the Mayor’s Office for Education and Children in Denver, Colorado she championed educational access. A licensed child psychologist, in 2005 she received a congressional commendation for her contributions to Latino education. In 2008 she co-chaired the Democratic National Convention Committee’s Education Initiative, and launched Denver’s Youth Agenda. Maria was inducted into the prestigious Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2016, the University of Denver conferred the AHSS Lifetime Achievement Award to Maria. Her community service includes the Children’s Hospital Colorado board, The Denver Foundation board, and she served as a University of Denver trustee for 20 years. She continues as a trustee at Soka University of America. Maria was a Kellogg National Fellow (KNFP XI) and co-chaired the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance board. If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Manuel Silva Martinez oversees Mouro’s strategy, investor relations, resources and processes as the General Partner authorised by the FCA, with his day-to-day investment activity focusing more on UK, Europe and Latin America. Manuel sits on the boards of a55, bonify and Crosslend and, as observer, of Autofi, Creditas, Curve, Elliptic, Klar, Roostify and Tradeshift, among others. Manuel has been investing in fintech since 2010, having spent 5 years in San Francisco with BBVA Ventures (now Propel VC) before moving to London in 2015. He is a hiking enthusiast, world traveler and wine aficionado. Mouro Capital is a venture capital firm with $400M assets under management that targets early to growth fintech investment opportunities across Europe, North America and Latin America. Until 2020, it was operating as the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of Santander, Santander InnoVentures, before spinning out as an independent entity with Santander as Limited Partner.  If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Mami Kato is the Head of Public Relations and Communications at Revolut Japan, and the spokesperson for the business. Mami has over 15 years of experience as a corporate and financial communications professional. She worked at Japan’s largest PR firm and at a European strategic communications advisory company, where she mainly engaged in long-term corporate communications for the Fortune's most admired companies in the B2C and B2B space. For those in FinTech, Revolut does not need an introduction. Founded in 2015 in London, it had initially focused on the European market, and then successively established a presence in the US, Singapore, Australia and Japan, where it officially launched in 2019. If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Heikki Vänttinen is Co-Founder at API3, a collaborative project to deliver traditional API services to smart contract platforms in a decentralized and trust-minimized way. It is governed by a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), its code is open source and its operations are completely transparent. In November, API3 announced the closing of their seed investment round with Placeholder, Pantera Capital, Accomplice, CoinFund, Digital Currency Group and Hashed participating, among others. API3 has raised $3 million in exchange for 10 million API3 tokens, representing 10% of the total supply. If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Chris Thomas is the Head of Digital Assets at Swissquote Bank. Prior to joining the firm, Chris has combined his financial expertise with his passion for entrepreneurship as Head of European Innovation at Fidelity Investments, before successfully founding an institutional crypto-asset custodian. Swissquote Bank specialises in online financial and trading services. Based in Geneva, it is the first FINMA-regulated Swiss bank to offer crypto trading, custody and ‘crypto-asset’ equity certificates for retail clients and global institutions If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Tuhina Singh is the Co-Founder & CEO of Propine, a graduate from Singapore’s unique Entrepreneur First accelerator program, and the first native digital asset custodian regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) through the Capital Markets Services (CMS) License. Propine is building a safe, regulated, and certified future for digital securities with the support and partnerships of reputed private, quasi-governmental and governmental organizations to create an ecosystem of trust, quality and compliance. Propine is positioned to become the first independent digital securities custodian in a highly regulated environment. With the Capital Market Services License in the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s regulatory sandbox, Propine is leading the way towards a new world of possibilities for institutional investors. Besides custody, Propine provides end-to-end securities services including but not limited to entitlement checks, facilitating settlement, facilitating corporate actions, asset servicing, investor reporting, cap table management, statutory reconciliations and regulatory reporting. If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Ricky Lee is the Founder & CEO of sync, and previously the creative mind behind the customer experience at Lloyds Banking Group and Revolut. sync is looking to lead the way in Smart Open Banking, allowing users to instantly open a current account in British Pounds or Euros in minutes and to provide them with the ability to open up more than 30 other currency accounts. Users are able to exchange currencies between their accounts at the best rates and transfer money worldwide at unbeatable rates. sync’s unique selling proposition is to allow users to synchronise all of their financial accounts (bank, credit, loan and mortgage accounts) in one app, as one experience by utilising Open Banking. By being able to budget, manage and track all of their accounts and expenses in one place, sync offers their users unrivalled user experience as a money management platform and becomes their financial advisor of choice. If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Kim Schumacher is a Lecturer in Sustainable Finance and ESG at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research focuses on ESG data and impact metrics, sustainable finance frameworks, green bonds, natural capital valuation, ecosystem services, renewable energy project development, and climate-related risk disclosure. Kim is the creator and course director for Japan's very first graduate-level course on Sustainable Finance and ESG, part of the Graduate major in Global Engineering for Development, Environment and Society. In addition, he is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. Kim is a Chartered Environmentalist and sits on the ISO Technical Committees on Sustainable Finance and Environmental Management. He is also is a member of the Technical Working Groups of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, the Climate Bonds Initiative, the ICMA Green Bond Principles, and the Green Finance Network Japan. If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support

Graham Rodford is Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Archax, an institutional-grade exchange for trading asset-backed tokens (digital securities, security tokens, etc.) based in London. Founded by experts from the financial markets and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the blockchain world and the traditional investment space. The Archax team is used to working in highly regulated markets and has a deep understanding of the blockchain landscape and tokenisation too – as well as a vision of how to evolve them and open up digital assets to institutions in a transparent manner. An exchange designed specifically for institutions, and built using existing, proven, resilient, scalable, high-performance exchange infrastructure, hosted in top-tier datacentre space, and integrated into the existing institutional trading workflow, Archax was the first digital asset exchange to obtain an FCA license and plans to launch toward the end of the first quarter in 2021. If you have a fascinating story to tell, and would like to join our podcast, please reach out to us at [email protected] You can also find us at www.exponential.finance --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/exponentialfinance/support