Chief Administrative Officer
Ryan Linton is a passionate business operator with 19 years of experience in revenue growth via e-commerce, banking, and payments of consumer products.
Recently Ryan held the role of President of MVB Fintech, a publicly-traded Virginia-based financial institution that trailblazes the offering of banking and compliance as a service (BaaS) to top digital savings platforms, payment, crypto exchanges, and direct selling.
Prior to MVB, Ryan held the role of Chief Executive at Betable, raising $60M to build the first global financial platform to enable developers to offer real-money play in their games and apps legally. Initially joining Betable as Chief Revenue Officer, Ryan has led teams across many operational aspects of the company including human resources, marketing, finance, business development, engineering, payments, compliance, and fraud prevention with teams located in 3 different countries.
Ryan was also the Vice President of Revenue Operations at Zynga, the mobile and social gaming developer responsible for hit titles like Words With Friends and Farmville. He built a department from the ground up that was responsible for developing and managing revenue streams throughout the globe. During his tenure at Zynga, the company hyper scaled from a few hundred employees to over 3,500 with a dozen global offices and reaching 350 million monthly active global customers.
Before jumping into startups, Ryan served as general manager, operations, and business roles at Global Collect, Blockbuster, and Ancestry.com.
Ryan is a native of Salt Lake City, Utah and holds a BA from Brigham Young University. His outside interests include family (of 8), skiing, mountain biking, and traveling.