Alex Pezold had few expectations as he sat with his team from Oklahoma City's TokenEx watching the countdown of the 2016 Metro 50 Award winners by the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber.

The annual Metro 50 Awards Banquet, held in the last week of September, honored the metro area's fastest growing privately held companies based on revenue growth between 2013 and 2015.

Pezold, TokenEx's chief executive officer and co-founder along with Jerald Dawkins, shared a table with his wife and company employees as the Metro 50 countdown reached No. 5.

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