Ryan Selkis is an American angel investor and entrepreneur who lives in New York City. He is the founder of Messari Crypto and former managing director at CoinDesk. ^[1]

Selkis is originally from Albany, New York. ^[8] He graduated cum laude in finance from Boston College with a degree in 2008. He dropped out of the MIT Sloan School of Management in order to pursue opportunities in bitcoin.

At the start of his vocation, Ryan functioned as an Analyst for JPMorgan and an Associate at Summit Partners.

Ryan is the Founder and CEO of Good Benefits Inc. which plans custom work environment programs for organizations that wish to add a magnanimous offering alternative to representatives.

Ryan got engaged with the Bitcoin people group in 2013 and established TBI Consulting that bootstrapped undertakings, for example, the TBI Daily Newsletter just as Venture Capital Consulting.

In 2014, Ryan turned into the Director of Growth for the Digital Currency Group where he contributed and scaled computerized cash adventures.

In January 2016, Ryan drove the securing of CoinDesk.

His prosperity at CoinDesk incorporates sorting out the biggest business occasion facilitated to date with 2,600 participants (Consensus 2017), and moving HQ from London to NYC.