Ryan joined Fairhaven from innoPad where he worked on a diverse set of initiatives ranging from IP strategy to ISO 9001:2000 certification. Before innoPad, Ryan co-founded YouShoot, the first nationwide digital camera rental company for events. In November 2005, he was recognized as one of Business Week’s “Top Young Entrepreneurs of Tech” for his efforts at YouShoot. Previously, Ryan was an IT analyst at Forrester Research, where he researched and wrote about global IT spending, technology adoption, and organizational behaviors highlighted by Forrester’s first report on MySQL in 2003, which successfully sold to Sun Microsystems for $1 billion after raising less than $40 million in venture capital. As an avid space enthusiast, Ryan volunteers with the Space Angels Network. Ryan earned a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
