Ryan Selkis

Prior to founding Messari, Ryan was an entrepreneur-in-residence at ConsenSys , and on the founding teams of Digital Currency Group, where he managed the firm’s seed investing activity, and CoinDesk, where he led the company’s restructuring & annual Consensus conferences. He has been an investor & prolific writer in the crypto industry since 2013. As a managing director at Coindesk, he organized the largest industry event ever hosted at the time with 2,600 attendees. He also helped grow company revenue by 730 percent in 18 months, achieving profitability goals. He also managed a 12-person team and on-boarded a new CEO. He writes a widely followed daily blog under the moniker the "Two-Bit Idiot," where he discusses news, analysis, and ideas for the Bitcoin industry. Ryan has a Bachelor of Science in finance from Boston College and an MBA in entrepreneurship and innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management.