Founder, Dialetic

Ryan is the founder of Dialectic, a Swiss-based family office focused on alternative assets. Ryan was a very early investor in some of the best-performing venture investments of the last decade including (chronologically) Ethereum, MakerDAO, Polychain Capital, Filecoin, Polkadot, Dfinity, Solana, Near, Avalanche, Axie Infinity, Yield Guild Games and dozens of others. Ryan launched Polychain’s private investment activities and is considered the co-creator of the SAFT. He has built a reputation for being a value-add venture investor with a uniquely global purview and deep understanding of decentralized networks as well as crypto-native challenges and opportunities in an international context. He is the owner of an important digital art collection which includes Beeple’s HUMAN ONE. Previously he was CEO of a large Brazilian renewables firm and is responsible for roughly 1GW of wind and solar power development globally along with a range of renewable energy innovations.