Ryan Knapp

About Ryan Knapp

Ryan W. Knapp is an experienced legal professional with a proven track record of building, scaling, and operating legal teams and technological solutions. His professional experience includes time spent in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.Ryan most recently served as the Head of Legal Operations at Blockchain.com where he also acted as the de facto Chief of Staff to the Chief Legal and Administrative Officer. While being responsible for the traditional legal operations verticals (law firm engagement, legal technology procurement/implementation/administration, budget/strategic planning, etc.), his responsibilities also included, but were not been limited to, leading debt and equity financings, implementing a scalable regulatory licensing regime, leading investor relations efforts, facilitating all stock administration, managing the capitalization table, and advising with respect to workforce reductions.Prior to Blockchain.com, Ryan was the founding member of the Legal Operations teams at DoorDash and Lime, where he created and lead the \"traditional\" Legal Operations function as well as managing substantive matters in the global Corporate, Litigation, Employment, Immigration, Intellectual Property, Commercial Transactions, Privacy, and Regulatory spaces. Prior to Lime, Ryan was a member of Uber\'s Emerging Technologies Legal Product Team. In this role, he was responsible for legal matters pertaining to global legislative and regulatory developments in the space. He worked in tandem with Uber\'s Advanced Technologies Group on the development of self-driving vehicles, Uber Elevate on aerial ridesharing (i.e. flying cars or eVTOLs), JUMP shared dockless mobility (bike and scooter share), and other new products and ventures. Upon initially entering Uber, he performed the same function as it pertained to the company\'s core ridesharing business.Prior to Uber, Ryan served as Foreign Liaison at United States Department of Justice\'s Antitrust Division, where he performed a variety of interagency, bilateral, and multilateral functions for the Division\'s International Policy Section. In addition, he served as Paralegal Specialist, assisting with criminal and civil antitrust investigations including, but not limited to, U.S. v. Apple, et al, U.S. v American Express, and U.S. v. AMR Corp (American Airlines-US Airways merger).Ryan holds a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College where he majored in International Political Studies and Pre-Law.

Experience

1. Head of Legal Operations

   Blockchain.com

   Aug 2021 — Present

   Implemented legal technologies and legal operations best practices to improve team efficiency and maximize team output• Led all Board of Directors and corporate governance matters, equity/debt financing workstreams, and stock administration (managing employee equity programs,executive compensation, secondary transactions, mergers and acquisitions, etc.)• Resolved substantive matters across legal practice areas (corporate, employment, immigration, privacy, regulatory, etc.)

Education

• Harvard Business School Executive Education

  Strategy & Leadership

  2017 — 2018

• Georgetown University

  Institute of Comparative Political and Economic Systems (ICPES)

  2009

• Boston College

  Bachelor of Arts, International Political Studies; Pre-Law Studies

• Cedar Rapids Xavier High School

  High School