About the Unchained Team
Meet the Team
Laura Shin – Founder and CEO
Laura is a crypto journalist, host of the Unchained podcast, and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (PublicAffairs, 2022)...
Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had 20 million downloads and views. Shin has spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, Singularity University and the Oslo Freedom Forum.
Read more about her at laurashin.com.
Juan Aranovich – Managing Editor
Juan is an economist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s very passionate about the ethos of crypto and decentralization, and he has his own newsletter...
Previously in TradFi and consulting, he now helps run Unchained operations. Find him on Twitter.
David Robinson – Sponsorships
David worked for Wave Digital Assets (Wavegp.com) audited, insured, and SEC regulated institutional facing Defi where he focused on treasury management for the largest layer 1+2 projects, decentralized finance(DeFi) projects, NFTs, crypto banks, and GameFi projects. Prior to that, he spent two years at Bitwage.com helping companies retain employees with Bitcoin and Ethereum payroll. He helped Bitwage raise $0.5M. David has been pitching Bitcoin to friends and family since 2016.
Matt Pilchard – Unchained AV engineer
Eternally curious and creative media, UI/UX, Analytics web solutions developer who works with process and operations to design, create and support solutions that produce impact and value...
Passionate about decentralized blockchain technologies and the future of DeFi.
Sam Sriram – Reporter
Sam is a crypto journalist based in Sydney. She has a Masters in Finance and Business Analytics, and is interested in blockchain technology adoption across various sectors.
Sage D. Young – Reporter
Sage is a crypto journalist at Unchained. He cares for the Solarpunk Movement and is a graduate from Claremont McKenna College, who dual-majored in Economics and Philosophy with a Sequence in Data Science. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, stETH, PEOPLE, DOGE, PEPE, MOG and BONK.
Veronica Irwin – Regulatory Reporter
Veronica is a New York City-based tech reporter covering how cryptocurrency impacts politics and society. She is particularly interested in US government regulation of crypto as well as how the industry can bring financial equity to the underserved around the world. She has previously worked at Forbes, Protocol, and several local outlets in her previous home of San Francisco.
Pam Majumdar – Social media & analytics
Pam is a Los Angeles-based crypto and fitness enthusiast.
