BTC $85,364 +4.30%ETH $2,727 +2.26%XRP $1.52 +5.23%SOL $116 +3.46%DOGE $0.09882 +9.81%USDT — —USDC — —BTC $85,364 +4.30%ETH $2,727 +2.26%XRP $1.52 +5.23%SOL $116 +3.46%DOGE $0.09882 +9.81%USDT — —USDC — —

Ray Youssef Profile

Ray Youssef is the former CEO and co-founder of Paxful, a peer-to-peer finance platform for trading Bitcoin (BTC). Ray is an immigrant from Egypt raised in the heart of New York. He was an entrepreneur for different startups for over a decade before co-founding Paxful.

Current Work

Former CEOPaxful

Previous Work

Entrepreneur11 startups
Jan 2005 – Jan 2015
FounderMatrixM
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005
FounderFunHi
Jul 2004 – 2005
Senior Software EngineerYadaYada
1999 – 2001

Education

Baruch College
1996 – 1999
✎ Last updated Aug. 4, 2026