Ryan has 22 years of experience growing and operating small, mid-sized and large companies.  He has deep operational expertise in general management, technology/product development, salesforce architecture and acquisition integration.  

Before Golden Elm, Ryan was on the senior management team at a mobile fundraising company in the western suburbs and prior to that he ran a business unit at GoHealth in Chicago.  

Ryan has also held operational and strategy roles at MillerCoors, where he helped launch MillerCoors' craft beer division, Tenth and Blake. He started his career in technology consulting.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BBAfrom the University of Notre Dame.

Ryan was born, raised, and still lives outside of Chicago with his wife and two children.