Ryan Salame
Ryan Salame (born ) is an American business executive who operated an illegal money-transmitting business. He was the CEO of FTX Digital Markets, the FTX subsidiary based in the Bahamas. He was the founder of the American Dream Federal Action super PAC. Early life and education
Salame grew up in Sandisfield, Massachusetts. He attended high school at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington. He received a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015. He received a Masters in Finance from Georgetown University in 2019. Career
Salame worked briefly for Ernst & Young. In 2019, he started working for Alameda Research in Hong Kong. He later became co-chief of FTX Digital Markets, FTX's Bahamas unit. During the primaries of the 2022 United States elections, Salame donated millions of dollars to Republican candidates. Salame invested over $6 million in Lenox, Massachusetts restaurants and real estate. During the 2022 bankruptcy proceedings of FTX, it was revealed that the company loaned Salame $55 million. Salame’s girlfriend Michelle Bond received $400,000 in consulting fees from FTX Digital Markets. Salame claimed to have learned about the impending collapse of FTX in the week before it filed for bankruptcy and to have vomited upon hearing the news. In April 2023 the FBI raided Salame’s Potomac, Maryland home. In September 2023, he pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws and operating an illegal money-transmitting business. He agreed to forfeit $1.5 billion. References 

21st-century American businesspeople
1990s births
Living people
21st-century American criminals
American male criminals
American businesspeople convicted of crimes
American people convicted of fraud
Criminals from Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Georgetown University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)