At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Texas based CEO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Martin Floreani
Founder and CEO of Rokfin
Martin Floreani is the Founder and CEO of Rokfin, a creator-first subscription media company and a (live) digital platform that rewards content creators for the full value they generate. Martin focuses on delivering a product that creates the world’s most efficient content network. He previously founded FloSports, a leading subscription-based sports media company. He ran the company for 12+ years as its CEO, and raised more than $40MM in funding through a combination of debt and equity rounds. He grew the company from zero to 250 employees while expanding the company’s network to more than 20 sports verticals.
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About Rokfin: Rokfin is a platform for creators and content owners to bundle their offerings in a subscription.
Christopher Brown
Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo
Christopher Brown is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zabo & Modular & he attended Southern Methodist University in 2010.
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About Modular, Zabo: Zabo connects any crypto wallet to any application in a few lines of code.
John-David Enright
CEO of TMGcore
Experienced and dedicated executive with 23+ years working with DOD, Multi-national Private, and Public sector organizations. Executive level management to include CEO, President, VP and Sr. Director for globally engaged organizations. Mr. Enright is highly proficient in culturally diverse work scenarios. Primary focus on developing and executing Strategic Step-Up Growth initiatives in Emerging Markets and Technologies.
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About TMGcore: TMGcore develops and commercializes emerging technologies which support global Blockchain stability, growth, and long-term sustainability.
Joseph Kelly
Co-Founder & CEO of Unchained Capital
Joseph Kelly is the Co-Founder & CEO at Unchained Capital.
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About Perfect Timing, Unchained Capital: Unchained Capital is a blockchain financial services company that lends cash to long-term crypto holders.

John Wingate
CEO of BankSocial
John Wingate is the CEO of Fivancial Inc., a holding company that includes two subsidiaries: BankSocial and Rivia.
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About BankSocial: BankSocial is a global FinTech company leading the evolution of financial services and technological infrastructure through blockchain technology.
At the heart of their mission is the belief that the individual is paramount and social capitalism will be the future of economies.
The company offers a range of products, including a self-custody crypto exchange, KYC solution, partnerships with credit unions, payments solutions, lending, and more.
BankSocial is committed to empowering businesses and individuals globally by offering an open financial system, providing a new way of finance to the world.
About Rivia: $rUSD (Our USD) is a 1 to 1 verifiably backed stablecoin called Rivia US Dollar (“$rUSD”) that is tradeable across private and public decentralized distributed ledgers for Credit Unions, Banks, Businesses, their members, and their customers to circumvent traditional financial rails including card networks and ACH/Wire networks.
Rivia is reducing the reliance on legacy finance, lowering costs of doing business, and providing worldwide access to the American financial system for the unbanked and underbanked
John T. Perrone
President & CEO of BitWallet
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About BitWallet: BitWallet is a high-security cryptocurrency wallet and exchange for both individuals and businesses.
Gene Grant
Chief Executive Officer of Levelfield
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About Levelfield: VRBex is a Houston, Texas based financial services company seeking to blend traditional banking, securities, and digital assets

Chris Slaughter
Co-Founder & CEO of LVL
Chris Slaughter is a Founder & CEO at Lynx Laboratories.
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About LVL, Lynx Laboratories: LVL is an FDIC-insured mobile banking app where you can exchange cash & Bitcoin for free & invest easily with Autopilot.

Carlos “Aari” Lotfipour
CEO and Founder of Jalapeno Inventive
Comes from a computer science background from the University of North Texas, and 10 years experience in the nuclear medicine field mostly recently with Siemens Healthcare.
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About Jalapeno Inventive: Jalapeno Inventive is developing the next generation of advertising, offering monetization and promotion features.
Ben Fitts
Founder/CEO of Crypto Gulch
Ben Fitts is an inveterate entrepreneur. He is the founder and chief executive officer of CryptoGulch, a large-scale mining rig hosting ecosystem located in Austin, Texas, and MinerParts, an Austin-based international importer and retailer of cryptocurrency mining equipment. CryptoGulch’s priority is creating an optimal environment for its customers to mine cryptocurrencies while allowing its customers to make the freedom to make their own business decisions as to their mining efforts. CryptoGulch is known as an unceasing innovator in customer-centric mining rig hosting. MinerParts builds on Ben’s hard knocks learning of the difficulties in sourcing cryptocurrency mining equipment, serving its customers with hard earned advice and access to the equipment that reduces its customers’ headaches that can come with mining efforts.
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About Crypto Gulch: Crypto Gulch is a cryptocurrency mining farm.