Ryan Gentry

Ryan holds an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas. Prior to joining Lightning Labs, he spent two years on the deal team as Lead Analyst for Multicoin Capital. Ryan graduated from UT in 2014 and went to work for Intel as a Controls Engineer. He caught the Bitcoin bug in 2017 while building Internet of Things prototypes when he realized all of these Things were going to need some way to pay each other and USD wasn't going to cut it.