“Everything Is All About Relationships, Most Importantly Maintaining Them ” With Annika Monari & Alan Vey of Aventus

“Everything is all about relationships: pursuing them and building them and then (most importantly) maintaining them. We’re building relationships across tech, across finance, across ticketing and entertainment — don’t underestimate the importance of this (or the amount of time you’ll need to put into it).”

I had the pleasure of interviewing Annika Monari & Alan Vey, founders of blockchain ticketing service Aventus, a new platform providing the ticketing industry with a fair and secure means of ticketing events.

Thank you so much for joining us! What is your “backstory”?

AM: We met in 2012 whilst we were both studying for our masters at Imperial College London. I was fascinated by Physics and interned at the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory before starting my thesis, whilst Alan had an affinity with economics and took a year out to work at the Deloitte Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre, going on to study Artificial Intelligence for his masters.