About

Empowering Financial Freedom with Innovation and Simplicity

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Our Vision
Defi Made Simple

Flashy is an ecosystem of products for consumers, and Decentralized Finance as a Service (DFaas) infrastructure layer embedded into culture enterprise, focused on making Decentralized Finance (DeFi) simple to use for a mainstream audience.

At the center of the Flashy ecosystem is the Flashy token, the key to the Flashy ecosystem, which plays a vital role in rewards, staking and other wallet functionality, and debit card transactions.

Our vision is to bring decentralized finance into the real world, while adding the simplicity of username identification and versatility of a multi-chain wallet.

Our team

Leadership

We’re a cross-disciplinary team that loves to create great experiences for our customers. Select a member to learn more.

Michael Gord

CEO

Michael is the co-founder & CEO of the GDA Group of Companies, which are focused across the digital asset capital market and include GDA Capital, focused on digital asset investments and web 3.0 capital market advisory, Acronym Asset Management, focused on market neutral asset management strategies, NFT BAZL, focused on investment grade NFTs and Life DeFi, focused on making DeFi accessible for retail investors. Michael is a founder and sits on the Board of Metaverse Group, a metaverse technology company, which was acquired by Tokens.com, a publicly traded web 3.0 holding company, and then acquired by StoryFire, a SocialFi application with 2.5M+ users.

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Eric Benz

CSO

Eric is an industry pioneer in crypto, web3, financial technology, payments, gaming, fashion and the arts. Eric has helped create some of the largest brands throughout the past 10+ years.

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Chris Papathanasiou

CTO

Chris is an experienced entrepreneur with a background of a C-Level positions in such companies as: Careem, DarkMatter, Misys, Citi Bank and more.

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Aleks Nowak

COO

Aleks is a world class blockchain expert with more than 12 years specific experience in blockchain and over 23 years of leadership experience across Fintech, Blockchain, Military and Maritime Security sectors with a proven track record in high-pressure operational environments

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Patrick Andras

Founding Partner

Patrick Andras has a Business degree from Louisiana State University. Patrick started in the digital asset space in 2017. During this time Patrick advised numerous top crypto currency projects. He has one of the most successful Crypto Twitter accounts @woofBIGDAWG BigDawgCrypto. The success of the Twitter analysis on the crypto markets led to the Big Dawg Crypto Podcast. CZ Binance was the guest on the first episode which led to some of the biggest names in the crypto currency space appearing on the podcast. In 2021 Patrick founded the Life Defi Wallet and in 2022 GDA Capital acquired the Life DeFi Wallet and Patrick joined GDA as a managing partner.

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Joaquim Miro

Growth

Joaquim Miro is a founding partner of MLG Blockchain, and has global experience working with companies in the blockchain industry. In 2018 he became the youngest person in history to be inducted to the Canadian Marketing Association MarTech Council. He serves as an advisor to the Holt Accelerator, and many blockchain projects. His work has been featured on BNN and other major publications.

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Jacob Jepson

Product

Jacob is the co-founder & CEO of Nova Ventures, which is a design venture studio focused on Web 3.0 projects. Jacob has led the product UI/UX and brand design for exploding venture funded companies across gameFi, AI, DeFi, among others.

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Michael Laurens

Marketing

Award-winning digital marketer and entrepreneur with 10 years+ experience & a track record of success in the web 3 space. Led public offering of digital assets with hundreds of millions of dollars of financing. Expertise in growing communities to over 100,000 members. Connected projects to 1+ billion crypto enthusiasts and investors collectively through innovative web3 marketing strategies. Bootstrapped multiple businesses to 7+ figures in annual revenue. Recognized by prestigious publications including Forbes and Entrepreneur for work in Web 3 Industry.

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Michael Van De Velde

Finance

Michael Van De Velde is a CPA,CA who leads the Finance and treasury management division at GDA Capital. Michael came to GDA Capital from Deloitte and KPMG Canada where he gained profound accounting and finance experience working as a manager in the private enterprise audit and tax department. At KPMG, Mike was responsible for audits, reviews, NTR’s within the following industries manufacturing, education, retail, construction, and not for profit. He worked alongside colleagues and worked with CFOs and controllers at various businesses where he gained valuation financial education that he applies today at GDA Capital.

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Seva Palazhchenko

UX Designer

Seva has 20 years of experience in web project management and 8 years of experience as a product manager in the fintech field. Has extensive UX expertise.

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