Jake Ryan

Founder & CIO at Tradecraft Capital

Jake Ryan is the founder and CIO of a long-biased crypto fund, Tradecraft Capital, and brings over 20 years of professional experience in software technology to the world of crypto asset investing. Prior to Tradecraft, he started the Venice Consulting Group (VCG), a custom application development firm with clients that include - FOX Sports, Lexus & SAG-AFTRA. Jake is also a startup advisor to several venture-backed startups, a mentor at Mucker Capital and a strategic advisor at Diversis Capital, a private equity firm. Jake earned a BS in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a 1st author of published work in the field of applying artificial intelligence to network security, “Intrusion Detection with Neural Networks”, which now has over 600 Google Scholar Citations. He has a book coming out from Wiley on crypto asset investing which will be released in Q12021. He lives in Austin with his wife and young son.