Bio

Ryan is a Co-Founder at Pax8 and has more than 20 years of experience helping channel partners build successful cloud practices by enabling them to easily sell, bill, and support cloud subscription services. Under his direction, Pax8 is building the world’s favorite cloud marketplace for IT professionals to buy, sell, and manage best-in-class technology solutions. Prior to Pax8, Ryan served as vice president of product management for MX Logic, a cloud-based email and web security company that was acquired by McAfee in 2009. Following the acquisition, Ryan directed the product teams responsible for McAfee’s portfolio of cloud-based email and web solutions and later led the product unification and hybrid cloud development effort for the company’s web security product lines. Ryan has dedicated his career to enabling businesses with Internet–based, IT solutions. He started his career building a re-engineering practice at Deloitte & Touche in the Consulting division. Ryan holds a BA in Business Economics from Colorado College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Ryan currently serves as a Champion member of CompTIA. For four years in a row, he was named a CRN Channel Chief. He is an award-winning keynote speaker at events such as NexGen, XChange, CompTIA ChannelCon, Channel Partners Evolution, Channel Partners Expo, and more.