Former financial analyst and strategy consultant, Ryan has become deeply engrained in Chicago’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Ryan is the co-founder and president of Catapult Chicago, a premier incubator for scale-ups in Chicago. 

In addition, he leads the business development and partnership initiatives for Vlinks Media, one of Chicago’s fastest growing technology scale-ups. Ryan was recently named to Chicago’s Tech 50 and is a graduate of the Ross School of Business of The University of Michigan.