Scott Augustine Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Austin, Texas Area

• Rokfin enables creators to unlock long-term passive income by bundling their content with other top creators and earn the full value of their collaboration using the RAE Token.At Rokfin, I built operations, finance.
• Built and maintain ownership over finance and operations, working cross-team to drive ARR from 0 to $5 million and increasing active paid subscribers from 0 to 35,000.
• Built and manage a compliance team, including a project resulting in a net $4 million tax savings by creating a novel tax strategy for cryptocurrency used in business operations
• Led several crucial vendor contract negotiations, notably securing multi-year deals with our highest software and server expense partners at deep discounts.
• Established operational processes and oversee payroll, accounting, HR, compliance, hiring, contractors, monthly and yearly closes, expense management, A/P, and cryptocurrency business operations.
• Support the CEO with the Board and Investors, executing meetings, materials, agendas, and updates.-----

Austin, Texas Area

• Collaborated directly with the CEO to define the business opportunity at Rokfin’s outset, refining pitch decks and executing investor meetings to raise initial friends and family funding round closed at the end of July.
• Invented a payment system—the RAE Token—which successfully captures the full value of credit card recurring subscription payments, while abstracting cryptocurrency UX from customers.-----

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

• Empowering creators as network founders by providing unparalleled economics and flexibility: https://intro.raetoken.org/ Within the RAE Ecosystem:
• Co-authored the project’s white paper and system architecture.
• Oversee asset custody, inventory, liquidity, and partnerships.
• Created an onboarding playbook of articles, videos, and 1-on-1 meetings to educate and assist 500+ new-to-crypto content channels.
• Collaborate cross-team on continuous deployments, focused on reducing high usage costs and fraud, and led the creation of the related IP portfolio.-----

• Self-taught poker player while obtaining a degree from University of Notre Dame. Netted over $2 million in poker profits during 13-year career in a high-risk, high-reward environment.
• Adapted to significant changes in the industry over career, starting with gaining knowledge from books and videos all the way to utilizing cutting edge software.
• Built a strong personal brand with a high reputation for both integrity and skill. Leveraged knowledge and personal brand to generate additional income through a partnership and equity ownership in poker training brand.

Chicago

• World-leading instructional poker site which offered members a video and private coaching catalog.
• With the founders, established the Cardrunners Private Coaching service, a two-sided marketplace connecting video instructors with students for paid private coaching instruction.
• Gained experience communicating with customers as a Cardrunners ambassador in both online poker communities and in-person events, most notably at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
• Produced exclusive instructional videos for their “High-Stakes Friday” content slot, consistently the most popular video slot of the week.-----

• Online poker community forum with membership ranging from top poker pros to beginners and fans.
• Leveraged high community reputation and top poker skills to found and build out a poker forum to further increase personal brand and foster community.
• Produced blogs, forum Q&As, and weekly events and tournaments, deepening industry relationships, including leadership at Cardrunners, setting the table for the successful multi-year Cardrunners deal. -----