At SpotOn, she built a research practice around the people behind restaurant technology. After hours, a lifelong ritual practice asks a remarkably similar question: what is someone really trying to understand?

The SpotOn marketing chief has spent three decades selling complex systems. His clearest idea is disarmingly simple: let technology handle the friction so restaurants can get back to hospitality.
Austin Trombley is the founder and CEO of Satschel, Inc., the Whitefish, Montana parent company behind Liquidity.io (a regulated tokenized trading platform), Simplici (KYC/AML onboarding and compliance), and ARQ Securities. A software engineer turned fintech executive, he co-founded the machine-learning hedge fund Random Forest Capital, which Franklin Templeton acquired roughly 15 months in, then served as VP of Blockchain & AI at Franklin Templeton and EVP at the payments company SpotOn before building Satschel's stack for bringing private credit and private equity onto public blockchains.