Background
Bank is the son of Charles Nicky Bank, a financial industry executive, and Charlotte Bank, a homemaker.
Bank is the son of Charles Nicky Bank, a financial industry executive, and Charlotte Bank, a homemaker.
He attended Bannockburn Elementary School and then Deerfield High School (Illinois) in Deerfield, Illinois, where he first started in media production.
Besides advising governments and corporations on the use of Emerging Technology, Bank is also a featured speaker both nationally and internationally on the organizational value of Innovation. Prior to founding Social Intelligence Corporation, Bank was an award-winning television producer, new media expert and President of, a Chicago, Illinois based media production and distribution company. Ryan Bank graduated cum laude from the School of Communications through the School of Continuing Studies of Northwestern University where he was inducted into the Alpha Sigma Lambda society.
Ryan Bank served as the president of, a media production company based in Chicago, Illinois. was founded as a media production company and has worked on projects ranging from music videos, television programs, media production and now New Media. has become involved with the production and distribution of new media projects with platforms such as Hulu.
In 2001, Bank produced a documentary and feature film,, about the life of Doctor Eugene Lazowski. Lazowski saved the lives of about 8,000 Jews in the town of Rozwadów as well as in surrounding villages by creating a fake typhus epidemic during World World War World War II He used medical science to save Jews and other Poles from being deported to the Nazi concentration camps.
Bank developed a system for the United States Coast Guard that used social media monitoring to find survivors after the 2010 Haiti earthquake in Portuguese-au-Prince, Haiti. Based on an extensive set of tools — including the remarkable work of several Non-governmental organizations and Private Volunteer Organizations — he was able to monitor hundreds of thousands of messages coming from Haiti, looking for those that needed immediate rescue.
Upon receiving distress messages, Bank worked with military responders to coordinate message traffic with information from other sources.
Ultimately, this intelligence would be passed to commanders in the field and rescue teams were launched to the location.
