The people behind $NPKN.
Fifteen acquisitions, a EUR 500M bond program, and a compliance-first token program are not run by avatars. These are the people accountable for every claim in the founding document.
Matthew Liberto
Founder and chief executive of Napkin and the $NPKN token program, expanding Napkin's M&A presence across North and South America, Europe, India, and the MENA region. Fifteen acquisitions since 2021, a EUR 500M Vienna-listed bond program, and a compliance-first path to a tokenized public listing. Previously co-founded KVCF, a fair-trade agro-commodities company serving over 27,000 registered farmers in West Africa.
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Ben Knaus
Chief Strategy Officer for the $NPKN token program and a member of the Forbes Technology Council. Leads token strategy, liquidity and market-maker relationships, exchange listings, and the community for the launch.
LinkedInThe operators.
The management team running the acquisition machine, the marketplace, the AI workforce, and the token program. The same people, photos, and bios published on the live org chart at napkindeals.com.
Ryan Persaud
M&A Director and backend developer driving deal operations and platform infrastructure. Oversees app.napkindeals.com and the Take-Private product.
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Josh Sturgeon
Leads Napkin Labs. The technology and product innovation arm of Napkin. Responsible for R&D, product strategy, and emerging tech initiatives.
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Deanna Spallone
Chief Operating Officer of Napkin Labs. Manages operations, team coordination, and delivery across the technology division. Works remotely from cruise ships around the world.
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Virna Ramazzini
Senior broker covering the UAE and broader MENA region. Manages seller relationships and deal origination across the Gulf.
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Arindam Chaudhuri
Leads Napkin's India operations including the 50-person on-demand team for data entry, verification, research, and outreach support.
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Satinath Mondal
Chief Technology Officer for Napkin India. Oversees engineering infrastructure and technical operations for the India division.
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TJ Jones
Leads sales operations for the US market. Drives buyer and seller acquisition across North America.
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Jeff Karram
Heads Napkin Media. The publishing and distribution division. Responsible for content strategy, brand media, and distribution partnerships.
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Adrian Castro
Director at Napkin Media overseeing content production, creative direction, and media operations.
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David Pimentel
Director at Napkin Media focused on distribution strategy, media partnerships, and audience growth.
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Martha Moncayo
CEO of billion-dollar government telecommunications company in Ecuador. Leads Napkin's Latin American operations spanning deal origination and regional expansion. Investor in real estate, technology, and farming. Advisor to Napkin since 2022.
LinkedInCompliance is not a department here. It is the architecture, and securities counsel sits at the table for every structural decision. The posture is compliance-first, by design.
Six seats, on the record.
The board of directors at the time of writing. The governance layer the token program answers to.
Capital markets, crypto infrastructure, credit.
An advisory bench spanning traditional asset management, exchange and protocol engineering, and SME credit. The three disciplines a tokenized acquisition machine has to get right at once.
Institutional rails, named.
No logo wall, no vague ecosystem claims. The named institutions and firms in each seat of the program, and what each one does.
The machine they built.
Behind the names sits the NapkinDeals.com marketplace, the 62-agent AI workforce, and the operating history since 2021, proof that “AI-native acquirer” is a description, not a slogan.
Judge the team by its paper trail.
Every claim on this page traces to the white paper, and every number in the white paper traces to a source.