Ryan Tabone
Founder of Alkemei
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Advisor
2022 - Current
Founder
2024
Board & Advisory through referral only.
Advisor
2022
Ponto provides regulated payment services for global enterprises to offer financial services to their customers.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Flori Ventures.
Founder & Investor
2016
Investor & advisor to startups in a variety of industries For a partial list of tech investments, see https://angel.co/ryant
Co-Founder & Advisor
2022 - 2024
Co-Founder & CEO
2022 - 2022
Happiness comes from working with who you love. Saw a need to connect groups of people who wanted to work together with companies eager to get teams of people ... and filled it (or tried to)!
Chief Product & Technology Officer
2022 - 2024
Simplifying what it takes to run a merchant business. Some highlights: - Completed a post merger integration of 9 companies & 1000 person organization - Set 5 year vision & 3 year strategy - Fixed & automated payments & capital infrastructures to shift the organization from a SaaS business model to one powered by Financial Services (finance-based revenue from <15% to >60% of total revenue in less than a year) - Brought organization to best in class stability & security practices - Shifted culture to adopt short development cycles & constant experimentation, which resulted in several AI-backed features that went from idea to production in less than a month
Executive In Residence & Advisor
2021 - 2022
Drop-in Executive & Advisor, operating across Alphabet, focused on the Other Bets, X, and GV companies
Alphabet is a holding company that provides projects with resources, freedom, and focus to make their ideas happen.
General Manager & Vice President, Google Pay & Google Finance
2018 - 2021
Founded the Finance product layer for Google with the goal of making finance simple, helpful, & accessible for all
Technical Assistant to the CEO
2018 - 2018
Vice President, G Suite
2013 - 2018
Brought enterprise focus, shift to mobile, & Google's first consumer AI features
Co-Founder & Group Product Manager, Chrome OS & Chromebooks
2008 - 2013
Responsible for Google's first consumer hardware products, from CR-48 through the industry’s first mainstream ARM-based laptop
Co-Founder & Product Lead, Quick Search Box
2008 - 2009
From idea to mass adoption in under a year Integrated QSB into Chrome, Android, & Search
Product Lead, Google Desktop
2007 - 2009
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Associate Consultant
2005 - 2007
Consulted in consumer packaged goods, healthcare, real estate, technology, private equity Specialized in process optimizations, growth/investment strategies, int'l expansions, market predictions
Optoelectronic Engineer
2002 - 2002
Optimized laser system for Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) satellite