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Ryan Dennis

Communications leader for AI and crypto: brand, comms, and go-to-market, from the broadcast booth to the top of the charts.

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Experience

  1. Feb 2026 – Jul 2026

    Senior Manager · DoubleZero

    A private fiber network for high-performance blockchains.

    • Supported the Kalshi announcement that shocked the prediction-market world in 2026.
    • Supported ad campaigns across Reddit, Google, X, and social.
    • Contributed to product marketing and the website.

    Press: Decrypt, Forbes, CoinDesk, The Block

  2. Jun 2025 – Feb 2026

    Head of Marketing · OpenServ

    Reliable, auditable AI agents. Singapore.

    • Led go-to-market for bringing Telegram-scale data into AI applications, driving 131% on-chain user growth.
    • Grew the audience from 5,000 to 20,000 in six months.
    • Master of ceremonies and speaker for a ten-episode series on AI agent orchestration.

    Press: Entrepreneur, Benzinga

  3. Jun 2023 – Jun 2025

    Communications Lead · TON Foundation

    The blockchain built to bring Telegram's users on-chain.

    • Oversaw all brand and communications as Toncoin went from a poor-performing asset to a top-five cryptocurrency.
    • Grew the audience from 1.5M to 3.5M accounts.
    • Ran the go-to-market campaign for USDT on TON, the fastest-growing USDT token within Telegram.
    • Rebuilt the TON Foundation brand after the SEC suit, through the Telegram Messenger partnership featured by CNBC.

    Press: Bloomberg, CNBC, TechCrunch

  4. Mar 2021 – Jul 2023

    Senior Manager, Public Relations & Communications · Stellar Development Foundation

    An open network for moving money worldwide. Silicon Valley.

    • Spearheaded the launch of USDC on Stellar.
    • Led PR for the world's first mutual fund on a blockchain, with campaigns alongside PwC, MoneyGram, and Franklin Templeton.
    • Secured coverage in Fortune and WIRED; quoted by Cointelegraph on Latin America's crypto growth.

    Press: Fortune, WIRED, Cointelegraph

  5. Mar 2020 – Mar 2021

    Senior Marketing Manager · Together Labs

    • Led marketing through 2020, rallying teams face to face and fully remote.

  6. Mar 2018 – Mar 2020

    Head of Marketing · TRON & BitTorrent

    Silicon Valley.

    • Spearheaded the launch of USDT on TRON, the fastest-growing stablecoin in blockchain history.
    • Secured exclusive announcements with Bloomberg, including the Warren Buffett dinner and the Opera Browser partnership.
    • Ran a product campaign with Samsung leadership, showcased at the Samsung Developer Conference.

    Press: Bloomberg (Ryan's photograph), Forbes

  7. 2018

    Head of Content · ICO Alert

    The internet's free token-sale directory.

    • Part of the team that vetted and listed about 1,900 pre-ICOs and ICOs in a year, trending toward 5,000 tokenized offerings by the end of 2018.

    Press: Fast Company, Business Insider

Education & certifications

BA, Broadcast Journalism · Honors Graduate
Hampton University
Outstanding Leadership Award
Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications
S.T.E.M. Certificate, Engineering Technology
Columbia University
ABM Certification: Foundations
Demandbase, 2019
Master Project Management Basics; Prioritize and Balance Your Work
Asana, 2019

Skills

  • Brand strategy
  • Go-to-market
  • Strategic communications
  • Corporate communications
  • Crisis communications
  • Media relations
  • Product launches
  • Marketing strategy
  • Stablecoins
  • AI agents
  • Public speaking
  • Broadcast and voice-over

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