Ray Youssef

Ray Youssef is an experienced entrepreneur and CEO, currently leading Noones as Chief Executive Officer since December 2023, with a mission to onboard a billion citizens to NoOnes Nation and #Bitcoin. Previously, Ray held the CEO position at Paxful, Inc. from September 2015 to September 2023, focusing on marketing, business development, UI/UX design, systems architecture, and administration. Concurrently, Ray serves as a CivKit Author and Built With Bitcoin Executor for the Built With Bitcoin Foundation since April 2023. Early career highlights include founding MatrixM, which became a leading ringtone pioneer, and FunHi, an innovative social networking experiment. Ray's journey includes lessons from eleven failed startups and a foundational role as a Senior Software Engineer at YadaYada. Ray holds a degree in History from Baruch College, earned between 1996 and 1999.