Ryan Pierce

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About Ryan Pierce

With over 24 years of experience in FinTech, Ryan Pierce is a global leader in industry standards and a seasoned architect and developer of complex data models. He brings clarity to complex FinTech architecture problems in both traditional trade and post-trade domains and the newly emerging landscape of distributed ledger, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. He excels at analyzing business processes, decomposing them into the detail-oriented realm of drafting requirements, workflows, and messaging specifications. Ryan can take this to the next level: collaboration with industry standards bodies, balancing the needs of all stakeholders while maintaining the architectural integrity of the standard. Ryan’s 9 US patent applications demonstrate his ingenuity as a serial inventor and creative problem solver. This inventive drive spills over into his passion for making things. Things with stories. Things at the intersection of technical skill, science, imagination, and history. Things that draw upon his unique, diverse experiences. He contributed to the Zcash Powers of Tau multiparty computation, collaborating with UIUC Asst. Prof. Andrew Miller to integrate Ryan's interest in nuclear physics and radiation detection. Ryan used his electronics and microcontroller programming skills to build a Geiger counter that acts as a random number generator with a harmless reactor graphite sample from Chernobyl as its cryptographic entropy source. To secure the process against eavesdropping, they performed the computation in a small airplane that Ryan piloted. Ryan is a highly versatile communicator when presenting to technical and business audiences. He's presented diverse topics on four continents, and coached an executive to present blockchain to Nobel laureates in economics. Ryan brings his deep industry experience, creativity, discernment, precision, and passion when building business architecture, along with divergent, unique ideas, and the technical know-how to make them real.