Ryan has nearly form-fitted his experience for
Greenlight's social entrepreneurship mission, having spent
time in newspaper journalism, corporate PR and marketing, and
non-profit issue-advocacy endeavors. Ryan began his career as a
reporter for Iowa's Des Moines Register, and ultimately
migrated to San Francisco to represent high-tech start-up clients
over the heyday of the dot-com boom. He then added a litany of
political campaigns and community causes over the next several Bay
Area election cycles. He has thus far orchestrated seven San
Francisco and Silicon Valley electoral campaigns, and most recently
completed an elaborate social media cause-marketing campaign for
the HP Palm brand. Ryan received his BA in journalism and political
science at Iowa State University, followed with the political
campaigning Master's program at the University of
Florida.
