Ryan Riegg

Ryan has been a lawyer for 13+ years and is a graduate of UCLA Law and USC.

A former startup-founder, who has published over 15 apps/games, Ryan greatly enjoys helping tech companies and startups, particularly those facing new or emerging regulation (i.e., crypto, NFTs, video games, data privacy, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, AI, Web3).

The tech startups Ryan has cofounded, or worked in the C-Suite for, have been featured by major press outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Polygon.

Ryan is a frequent public speaker on tech and policy issues. In 2014, Ryan won the Audience Award at the prestigious Slush conference in Finland and, in 2018, was asked by Duke University to give the keynote at HackDuke, the world’s largest social impact hackathon.

Ryan enjoys sharing knowledge with others and has published articles in The Hill, Vox, Vice, and Newsweek; as well as in law journals at Cornell, UCLA, and U.Denver. Additionally, Ryan has taught MBA and undergraduate classes at top-tier universities in the US and Europe on Business Law, Emerging Markets, and various startup topics, including innovation and international corporate structuring.

In his spare time, Ryan has been a mentor, expert, fellow, and judge for some of the world’s largest startup accelerators & innovation foundations, including the Founder Institute (CEE), TriBeCa’s Disruptor Foundation, Hult Prize, and Columbia Business School’s Lang Entrepreneurship Center.

A long-time global traveler and son of a US diplomat, Ryan has worked in 70 countries and lived in 12. Consequently, Ryan’s counsel is often invaluable to companies doing business internationally.

Prior to law school, Ryan worked in a refugee camp, where he created a startup to provide jobs to people in the camp and, in the process, reversed a 3-year legal precedent on the importation of hookahs/shishas/argilehs into the United States.

UCLA School of Law

J.D.

2005 - 2008

State Bar of California  # 262376

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