Ryan Disraeli

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Ryan Disraeli
Born
Ryan Disraeli

San Diego, California, US [1]
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Southern California (BS)
OccupationCEO, TeleSign
Known forCo-founder of TeleSign

Ryan Disraeli is an American businessman, and a co-founder and the CEO of TeleSign.

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Early life and education

Raised in San Diego, California, Disraeli attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he studied business at USC Marshall School of Business. [2] In 2018, Disraeli was awarded the USC Marshall School of Business Alumni Entrepreneur of the year award. [3]

Career

In 2005, Disraeli, while he was a sophomore at USC, cofounded an online security service company, TeleSign, that protects online websites and users. [4] Disraeli worked as a vice president of the company for fraud services [5] and has helped expand TeleSign's communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) to any developer capable of invoking a REST Application Programming Interface (API). [6] Disraeli helped TeleSign raise $78 Million dollars in funding and grow to annual revenues of more than $100 Million and hundreds of employees across the globe. [7]

Disraeli regularly provides commentary in the area of behavioral biometrics and Multi-factor authentication. [8] [9] [10] He also regularly comments on online security and fraud-related issues. [11] [12] [13] [14] In 2017, Disraeli was named to Forbes 30 under 30 for enterprise technology. [15] [16] Also in 2017, TeleSign was acquired for 230 million dollars by Belgacom ICS. [17]

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References

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