| Ryan Clayton Bank | |
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| Born | April 27, 1981 Lake Forest, Illinois |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Northwestern University |
| Occupation | Emerging Technology Expert, New Media Expert, Communications |
| Home town | Bannockburn, Illinois |
| Title | Founder, Social Intelligence Corporation |
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| Social Intelligence Corporation | |
Ryan Clayton Bank (born April 27, 1981) is an Emerging Technology Expert and Innovation Evangelist. Bank is the Founder of Social Intelligence Corporation, a start-up company that enables governments and corporate clients to gather Social and Open Source Intelligence. 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 Clayton Entertainment, a Chicago, Illinois based media production and distribution company.
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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. While in high school, he received numerous national and international media awards. Ryan Bank graduated cum laude from the School of Communications of Northwestern University where he was inducted into the Alpha Sigma Lambda society.
Ryan Bank served as the president of Clayton Entertainment, a media production company based in Chicago, Illinois. Clayton Entertainment was founded as a media production company and has worked on projects ranging from music videos, television programs, media production and now New Media.[1]
Clayton Entertainment 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, A Private War, about the life of Dr. Eugene Lazowski. [2] 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 War II. He used medical science to save Jews and other Poles from being deported to the Nazi concentration camps.[3]
Bank has received over 30 awards for projects he has produced. Of those awards, 5 were international awards and several dozen were national honors including: