San Diego, CA, Nov. 06, 2025 — Roundtable and RYVYL Inc. (NASDAQ: RVYL) right now introduced that legendary Web3 investor Aly Madhavji has agreed to hitch the soon-to-be-merged firm as Chief Monetary Officer (CFO), bridging his distinctive background of conventional finance credentials with deep relationships and expertise managing over 200 blockchain infrastructure know-how investments.
As CFO, Madhavji will assist information Roundtable’s continued rise by the merger course of and NASDAQ itemizing, whereas connecting the dynamic blockchain funding group with Roundtable. Present RYVYL CFO George Oliva upon completion of the merger will transition to the position of Chief Accounting Officer for the merged entity.
Madhavji’s monetary credentials are as impeccable as his in-depth data of the Web3 sector, bringing relationships with over 500 blockchain co-investors from each continent, together with his residence base in Singapore.
Roundtable CEO James Heckman praised Madhavji’s management and experience, stating, “In over 30 years of financing and working know-how firms, I’ve not met somebody with extra depth and thoroughness as a board member and investor, which is constant together with his technical and monetary acumen. His contribution has been so spectacular, we invited him to hitch this once-in-a-lifetime alternative to rework a whole trade. Aly has the distinctive capacity to translate the imaginative and prescient of our revolutionary platform to each conventional and blockchain-focused funding communities.”
Madhavji is a licensed Chartered Accountant (CA, CPA, CMA, CIM) with a Grasp’s in World Affairs from Tsinghua College (清华大学), an MBA from INSEAD (Singapore/France) the place he was a Blockchain Fellow, and a BA in Commerce with Distinction from the College of Toronto, the place he serves on the Governing Council. A global award-winning writer and featured speaker at main Web3 conferences, Aly can be a contributing analyst for main crypto publications and the acclaimed lead on Amazon Prime Video’s sequence Crypto Knights. His Roundtable board seat will mark his second NASDAQ service, following his place with Soluna Holdings.
Madhavji commented, “I’m becoming a member of Roundtable as CFO as a result of Roundtable has turned the media trade’s long-aspired Web3 imaginative and prescient into sensible actuality. The RYVYL merger brings bank-grade funds and public-market self-discipline; our platform provides publishers what they’ve needed for years: real-time income, clear reporting, and management of their knowledge, audiences, and IP, solely attainable with Web3. After diligencing and investing in a whole bunch of blockchain infrastructure groups, that is the one which stands aside; and why Blockchain Founders Fund made Roundtable our largest funding, and so I’m stepping in to steer our NASDAQ journey and align Roundtable with each conventional and Crypto targeted buyers.”
Madhavji joins a veteran executive team led by digital media entrepreneur James Heckman and blockchain pioneer Eyal Hertzog. Hertzog, co-founder and architect of Roundtable’s “DeWeb” platform, is widely recognized as the technical inventor of decentralized finance (DeFi), including automated market-making and the liquidity pool mechanisms that underpin the transformative industry – and brought it to market, as the lead architect and founder of Bancor. He also co-founded the first social video platform, MetaCafe, whose recommendation algorithm helped shape the foundation of social media.
Heckman, a serial founder and former senior executive at Yahoo, Google, and News Corp, has built and scaled more than a dozen technology platforms, including Arena Group, which powered digital media for over 300 global brands. He is joined by long-time technology collaborator and co-founder Bill Sornsin as COO, a former senior product leader at Microsoft and co-architect of several global-scale platforms with Heckman.
Together, this leadership team developed Roundtable, the first large-scale, Enterprise-level, Web3-powered media platform integrating decentralized payments, transparent real-time reporting, and on-chain audience and data control, creating next-generation infrastructure for professional publishers and media networks worldwide. Heckman’s prior company, Arena, became a nine-figure public enterprise powering publishing and monetization for global media brands including Sports Illustrated, Maxim, History.com, and TheStreet. His past roles include Head of Global Media Strategy at Yahoo!, Chief Strategy Officer at Fox Interactive, and architect of the $1 billion ad alliance between MySpace, Google, led the team that architected Hulu’s original business model and created the first “Premium Marketplace,” partnered with AOL, Yahoo!, MSN and the top dozen major media corporations..
Altogether Heckman has created and taken public and/or sold to major digital media, ten large-scale ventures, including Rivals.com (acquired by Yahoo!), Scout.com (acquired by Fox), 5to1.com (public, acquired by Yahoo!), NFL Exclusive, and Arena. Remarkably, every business he founded succeeded in sustainability and major industry scale.
Visionary Partners and Board Members
Roundtable co-founders and strategic partners include incoming Chair Walton Comer, XBTO co-founder, Lucid Holdings co-founder, which sold to CINT for nearly $1 billion, and founding investor of Deribit, recently sold to Coinbase for over $3 billion; Aly Madhavji, Managing Partner of Blockchain Founders Fund; David Bailey, CEO of Nakamoto, Bitcoin Conference and Bitcoin Magazine; Mike Alexander, former CEO of Jefferies Asia and CEO of Bullish’s EOS Venture Capital Fund; W. Graeme Roustan, Roundtable co-founder, former Chairman of Bauer Hockey, True Sports CEO, and CEO of The Hockey News, the first major network to publish on-chain with Roundtable; and Brock Pierce, Tether co-founder and early Bitcoin visionary.
Merger Details
A definitive agreement has been signed between RYVYL (NASDAQ: RVYL) and Roundtable. Closing remains subject to shareholder approval and standard regulatory review. Upon closing of the merger:
- James Heckman will become CEO
- Walton Comer will become Chairman, leading a seven-membered board
- Aly Madhavji will remain CFO (from Roundtable), in the merged companies
- George Oliva will remain as EVP/Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, reporting to Heckman
- The company will change its name to RTB Digital, Inc., doing business as “Roundtable”
- Six directors will be appointed by RTB, and RYVYL independent director Brett Moyer retained; all other incumbent directors of RYVYL will step down.
About Roundtable (RTB Digital, Inc.)
Roundtable is a Web3, digital media SaaS platform company, providing white-label, full stack distribution, community, publishing and monetization for professional media brands and journalists – fortified and powered by a digital liquidity pool integrated into the platform. Visit RTB.io.
About RYVYL
RYVYL Inc. (NASDAQ: RVYL) operates a digital fee processing enterprise enabling transactions across the globe, together with fee options for underserved markets. RYVYL has developed purposes enabling an end-to-end suite of turnkey monetary merchandise with enhanced safety and knowledge privateness, world-class identification theft safety, and speedy pace to settlement. www.ryvyl.com
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RYVYL IR Contact:
Richard Land, Alliance Advisors Investor Relations
973-873-7686 ryvylinvestor@allianceadvisors.com
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