Ryan Clayton Bank (born April 27, 1981) is an Emerging Technology Expert and

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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

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new media New media describes communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase "new media" became widely used as part of a sales pitch for ...

expert and

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of Clayton Entertainment, a

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based media production and distribution company.

Early life

Bank is the son of Charles Nicky Bank, a financial industry executive, and Charlotte Bank, a homemaker. He attended Bannockburn Elementary School and then

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, where he first started in media production. While in high school, he received numerous national and international media awards. Ryan Bank graduated ''

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'' from the School of Communications through the School of Continuing Studies of

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where he was inducted into the

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society.

Clayton Entertainment

Ryan Bank served as the

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of Clayton Entertainment, a media production company based in

. Clayton Entertainment was founded as a media production company and has worked on projects ranging from

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television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising ...

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and now

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. Clayton Entertainment has become involved with the production and distribution of

projects with platforms such as

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''A Private War''

In 2001, Bank produced a documentary and

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, ''A Private War'', about the life of Dr. Eugene Lazowski. Lazowski saved the lives of about 8,000 Jews in the town of

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as well as in surrounding villages by creating a fake

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epidemic during

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. He used medical science to save Jews and other Poles from being deported to the Nazi concentration camps.

Haiti earthquake

Bank developed a system for the

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that used social media monitoring to find survivors after the

2010 Haiti earthquake A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's ca ...

in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Based on an extensive set of tools — including the remarkable work of several NGOs 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.

References

External links

Personal Site

Social Intelligence Corp
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