Ryan Salame

Prior to joining the digital asset industry, Ryan built an extensive background in finance, having obtained a CPA in Massachusetts USA and a Masters in Finance from Georgetown University. He worked for Ernst & Young. Ryan worked for Circle Internet Financial, formerly one of the largest global OTC trading firms in the digital asset industry, and Alameda Research, one of the largest global digital asset market-making firms. Ryan assisted Sam Bankman-Fried with the founding and creation of FTX Trading Ltd, the parent company of FTX Digital Markets Ltd (FDM) before becoming CEO of FTX Digital Markets in September 1, 2021 after FDM received its Digital Asset License under the D.A.R.E Act. Ryan Salame has become synonymous with Lenox hospitality since he purchased his first restaurant, Firefly, in July 2020. Since then, he’s founded the Lenox Eats Collective and added three more Lenox-based favorites to his stable of local businesses. Restaurants include Olde Heritage Tavern (“The Heritage”), Sweet Dreams (formerly The Scoop), and, making its debut in late 2022, Campfire (formerly Café Lucia). Ryan has also established two new businesses under the Lenox Eats umbrella—Lenox Catering Company and Lunch Pail. While the former is self-explanatory, the latter is a food truck with a flexible “pop up” style menu that will be in service by mid-summer 2022.