About
Pat Riley is a Creative Director and Entrepreneur currently based in Austin, TX. He is currently Head of Experience at BTC Inc. Riley has over 10 years of experiences creating experiences, brands, and products in the fields of Bitcoin, Live Events, and Electronic Music.
In 2012, Riley dropped out of his graphic design program to work at ABV Agency, a leading experiential creative agency and art gallery in Atlanta, GA founded by Greg Mike. During this period, Riley became deeply immersed in the Atlanta street art scene working on experimental activations for music festivals, organized various art shows, and even pursued an apprenticeship under a traditional sign painter.
Shortly after, Riley fell down the bitcoin rabbit hole and began working for Apple while pursuing freelance design work. Through a chance encounter, he began working for pioneering bitcoin startup BitPay as one of the first bitcoin interface designers. Surrounded by world class engineers, Riley designed the first mass market bitcoin payment flow, various open source projects, and worked on the worlds first multi-signature wallet.
In 2016, Riley moved to Nashville, TN to join newly established BTC Inc as Designer / Head of Product. After BTC acquiring Bitcoin Magazine from Vitalik Buterin, Riley led the first redesign of the brand and established the new web presence. Riley also led Creative Direction for Distributed, the world’s first print magazine and conference series exploring alternative use cases for blockchain technology. After witness the potential of this technology first hand, Riley joined the founding team for Po.et and successfully led a fundraising round that allowed Po.et to lay the foundation for blockchain based metadata protocols for new media applications.
During the 2018 crash, Riley alongside the BTC team establishing The Bitcoin Conference, a first of its kind conference/festival hybrid event dedicated to rejuvenating the bitcoin community. Hosted initially in San Francisco before moving to Miami, the event quickly became the flagship event for the industry and established itself as one of the fastest growing events in the world with over 26k attendees attending. During this time Riley also led Creative Direction for Sound Money Fest, the word’s first bitcoin music festival with headliners including Deadmau5, Run the Jewels, Steve Aoki, and CL.
Riley is an experienced and multifaceted Creative Director with a specialty in early stage projects, live event activations, and decentralized technology. In addition to his work in the bitcoin space. Riley has founded a CBD company, produces electronic music, and spent two years traveling the United States via Airstream.
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