Ryan Alfred
Founder of Banking Embedded
Atlanta, Georgia
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2024 - Current
Co-Founder
2022 - 2023
It’s time for innovation and technology to be easier for banks and credit unions. True Digital is reducing innovation friction with solutions designed to accelerate and optimize vendor partnerships.
Board Member
2020 - 2023
Our Mission The mission of the Monarch School is to educate students impacted by homelessness and to help them develop hope for a future with the necessary skills and experiences for personal success. Our Vision Monarch School provides an excellent academic and supportive environment in which any student in San Diego County who is impacted by homelessness will receive a rigorous education and grow personally to become a highly motivated, contributing member of society.
Head of Product
2020 - 2022
NYDIG is a bitcoin company that provides technology and financial services to businesses in a broad range of industries.
Raised $1,405,000,000.00 from Affirm, MassMutual, Fiserv, New York Life Insurance, Bessemer Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley, WestCap, FinTech Collective and FIS.
General Partner
2017 - 2020
President and Board Member
2018 - 2020
Digital Assets Data was acquired by NYDIG in November of 2020. Founded January 2018. Raised $9m from world class investors (Distributed Global, DCG, Jump Capital, Blocktower, Galaxy Digital, Morgan Creek, CMT Digital, and leading family offices and angels) to build an enterprise-grade cryptoasset knowledge platform. www.digitalassetsdata.com
Digital Assets Data, a NYC-based fintech startup
Raised $9,200,000.00 from Morgan Creek Digital, Vestigo Ventures, CMT Digital, Ikigai Asset Management, North Island, Amidst Capital, Digital Currency Group, Digital Currency Group, Jump Capital and Distributed Global.
Advisor to the CEO
2016 - 2018
Strategic Insight (SI) provides critical and proprietary data, business intelligence, research and marketing services to the global asset management community. These full service solutions include investment flow data, advisor sales analysis, in-depth research, analytics, editorial content and events for investment managers, asset owners and custodians. Our clients include over 1000 of the most prominent names in the asset management industry, including 83 of the world's 100 largest fund managers.
Strategic Insight (SI) provides critical and proprietary data, business intelligence, research and marketing services.
Co-Founder, President and COO
2008 - 2016
BrightScope was acquired by Strategic Insight in November of 2016. BrightScope Inc. (BSI) publishes retirement plan ratings and financial advisor profiles to empower investors to make smarter financial decisions. Our enterprise data and sales enablement platform - BrightScope Beacon - is the leading cloud-based data aggregation and stewardship platform for asset managers. The NEXUS platform is the leading retirement plan data consortium connecting funds, retirement plans and the advisors who advise them.
BrightScope is a financial information company providing services for retirement planning and wealth management through web-based software.
Raised $5,900,000.00 from Michael Brams and Steelpoint Capital Partners.
Co-Founder and Partner
2005 - 2009
Investment management for HNW families.
Education
BA
2001 - 2005