Primary Job Title Board of Directors Primary Organization KVH, Industries
Gender Male
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Bruce Ryan brings extensive experience in the high-tech industry including over 40 years experience in a wide range of technology companies. Prior to VGO Mr. Ryan was a director of two previous Castile portfolio companies; Ahura Scientific and Silverstorm Technologies where Mr. Ryan also took on the role as CEO for an interim period.
As a
director and audit committee chairman he has served on the board of 11 public companies. In addition to VGO he is currently a director of Kronos, Inc. and KVH Industries. He has also served on the board of UTStarcom, CNT Corporation, Enterasys Systems, Iona Technologies, PLC, In Range Technology Corp., Ross Systems, Perceptive Bio Corp., Axeda Systems and Tarantella Corp.
Mr. Ryan was employed by Digital Equipment Corporation for 25 years where he had extensive international experience as a senior vice president in finance and operations. Mr. Ryan also served as EVP and CFO for Amdahl Corporation where he played a leading role in business development including the completion of key acquisitions which led to the successful sale of the company to Fujitsu in 1998.
After his role at Amdahl he was the EVP and CFO for Global Knowledge Network, a leader in network infrastructure education, where he was responsible for the acquisition of several education companies in Asia, Europe and North America building a $400m enterprise. He earned a BSBA from Boston College and an MBA from Suffolk University.
