Ryan has held several leadership positions in software enabling spanning strat planning, marketing, biz development and product management. Ryan led the Alliances Organization which managed open source-focused managers for VMWare, Red Hat, Canonical, and Open SUSE. He also managed investments working with Intel Capital, contracts, open source memberships, SW development platform forecasting/budgeting, dev labs and open-source events marketing.

Bryan has held both technical and business focused positions at SAS Institute, Intel and Lenovo. Bryan has led and participated in development teams from as few as five to as large as three hundred members. He also has considerable experience in strategic partnerships, business development and sales in both small and medium markets to enterprise organizations. With more than 20 patents granted by the USPTO, Bryan is a proven problem solver.