Ryan Disraeli
Ryan Disraeli is an American businessman, and a co-founder and the CEO of TeleSign. 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. In 2018, Disraeli was awarded the USC Marshall School of Business Alumni Entrepreneur of the year award. Career. In 2005, Disraeli, while he was a sophomore at USC, cofounded an online security service company, TeleSign, that protects online websites and users. Disraeli worked as a vice president of the company for fraud services and has helped  expand TeleSign's communications platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) to any developer capable of invoking a REST Application Programming Interface (API). 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. Disraeli regularly provides commentary in the area of behavioral biometrics and Multi-factor authentication. He also regularly comments on online security and fraud-related issues. In 2017, Disraeli was named to Forbes 30 under 30 for enterprise technology. Also in 2017, TeleSign was acquired for 230 million dollars by Belgacom ICS