Adam Ryan Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Beaumaris, Victoria, Au

Watkins Bay provides specialist capabilities in sales and growth via strategic innovation and the critical services that allow innovation to flourish—ranging from Board & Executive Level insights into market opportunities, entrepreneur engagement, and guidance to investment opportunities and operational design.Watkins Bay focuses on providing expertise in Sales, Strategy, Innovation, Product Development, Go-To-Market and Growth by working closely with CEOs and the executive leadership teams to design and execute accordingly.Watkins Bay focuses on assisting high-growth companies and large enterprises needing to innovate to achieve a global impact and sales growth. Watkins Bay provides Executive Level, CEO and Founder Mentoring, RD structuring, Corporate Structuring, Strategic Guidance, and expertise in various stages of business from early-stage to growth to publicly traded companies in Australia and the USA.Watkins Bay has also successfully played critical roles in Turnarounds reforming businesses, including Public Companies, enabling the ability to unlock additional capital, allowing the Founder's and Management Team's vision to be realised. The team also provide corporate advisory expertise in raising capital strategy, mergers and acquisitions and management buyouts/ins.

Victoria, 3800, Au

Adam holds an honorary Professorship position at the Monash Business School (Globally Ranked Top 37) in the Entrepreneurship Portfolio. Adam's specialty is applying Innovation to Strategic Innovation and Go-To-Market in the field of entrepreneurship and technology, including key concepts of investor engagement and capital raising. Adam also teaches in the GEMBA (Global Executive Masters of Business Administration) to C C-level executives in some of Australia's leading Enterprises on the importance of leadership in Innovation.These programs range from strategy to execution of product development, innovation, go-to-market, funding, hyper growth and investment to growth from executive leadership to execution teams.Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1958, it is the second oldest university in the State of Victoria. The university has several campuses, four in Victoria and one in Malaysia, with over 80,000 students enrolled.

Dandenong South, Victoria, Au

Narre Warren, Victoria, Au

Adam Led the Corporate Innovation Team at the City of Casey a $6B Asset City. Hewas responsible for building Innovation Capability within Casey via active and progressive education programs such as Innovation Bootcamps, and Innovation For Leader Programs and designed and launched the Casey Incubator and the award winning and globally recognised Casey Living Lab an Australian first. He also led the Innovation Consulting function within the City of Casey and designed, implemented and oversees Casey's Innovation Fund which invests in early-stage projects as well as the Australian leading City of Casey Living Labs which have focussed on Digital Equity and Circular Economy. The City of Casey is Victoria's most populous municipality, with a population of 340,419. It has an area of 409 square kilometres and assets of over $6 Billion.

Sydney, Au

Adam is guiding the Co-Founders on board-related matters of governance and innovation. Leading the capital raise process and investor relations. Adam also leads the key strategic elements relating to modelling, go-to-market and pricing.Everything recruitment marketing is ready to go in a box. Shazamme has reimagined marketing technology by using the latest no-code/low-code platforms, and finally, we can make marketing easy!Shazamme's Next Generation no-code enterprise-grade recruitment website tech will give recruiters complete freedom to integrate, create, design, manage and develop your web presence precisely the way they want. It is so easy to use!

Hawthorn, Victoria, Au

Adam provided the strategy and go-to-market strategy and execution aligned with growth, partners and innovation through his experience in technology startups and B2B payments and fin-tech. Parakeet has now been nominated for various awards in particular Xero marketplace awards. Parakeet has created an industry-leading complete stacked B2B payments platform focusing on solving the late payments problem for small businesses. Parakeet solves payments, liquidity and process issues for B2B businesses, enabling enterprises to build better relationships.Parakeet's vision is to solve B2B payment problems by combining finance, technology, and banking know-how by working with like-minded individuals and businesses who share the same vision.

Solana Beach, Ca, Us

Adam provided the key Strategic and Governance role with a lens on innovation, technology and growth. Adam led the team to discover initial market growth opportunities and facilitated investment while ensuring the operational platform was established, allowing Salutec to grow with scale and minimal risk.Adam assisted the board and the management in a successful buy-out of the company from the shareholders.

Solana Beach, Ca, Us

Adam role was to lead the team through to the successful delivery of initial prototypes of software, firmware, and hardware coupled with the successful installation and pilot at UCSD. He ensured initial pre-seed rounds of capital were facilitated, laying a foundation for the incoming CEO to scale.Adam led the successful initial seed rounds of capital before returning to Australia due to the Pandemic.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Adam provided Board Advisory services to UCSD for the Institute for Supply Chain Excellence and Innovation, working with companies such as Flex, Texas Instruments, IBM, FaceBook, Apple, KLM and others to define programs that foster Innovation in supply chain, in particular technology-based supply chains.The Institute for Supply Excellence and Innovation at the Rady School of Management provides crucial insights and education to industry partners, executives, policymakers and the greater community. The institute focuses on industry collaboration, the application of research for practical problem-solving, and educating the next generation of leaders who will shape and transform the industry. Very proud and honoured to be working closely with Jimmy Anklesaria and the dedicated team at UCSD and the other Advisory Board Members and assisting in the guidance of contemporary, relevant and quality education in the field of Supply Chain.

Brighton, Vic, Au

Adam led the strategy and execution of think's product development, innovation and revenue growth during the transition to a public company and multiple capital raising rounds and hyper-growth.

Brighton, Vic, Au

Navigated think from inception, through the growth of an extremely powerful procure to pay platform, to building a great business, which is admired and respected in the market today. think has won and continues to win awards across, achieving many world firsts along the way.The proudest achievement was seeing the think team build a 'Garage Business' to a 'Public Company' in just over six years in the Enterprise Application Market Place. This positioned think as the leading innovator in the Australian e-procurement landscape and provided a tremendous and solid platform for sustainable growth—a phenomenal achievement by a great team.Guided think through various Capital Raisings and delivery of key strategic partnerships, initial Cornerstone Customers including high profile Universities and Public Listed companies, ensuring sustainable shareholder value and onboarded over 7,000 suppliers onto the platform.think's technology was sold to a key player in the accounting marketplace.

Warriewood, Nsw, Au

Seed investment and mentoring from idea to the successful delivery of product ranges into its first stores. bassike has changed the thinking on whether Australian business can design and manufacturer textiles in Australia. The bassike philosophy centres around high-end design & construction with a commitment to sustainable manufacturing. bassike launched the original collection of organic cotton jersey before introducing bassike denim in 2007, and in 2008 seasonal mainline collections became a mainstay of the bassike brand.Seed investor, mentor and Advisory Board Member in its formative years.Exited Investment as part of a management buy out.

Seeded the organisation's initial capital and led Capital Raising to establish a business well ahead of its time. Navigated the company successfully through the GFC and challenging capital markets and complex restructure for further substantial investment via a series of successful capital raisings.Led the innovation of the product and grew the business from a zero revenue base to over $1m in sales leading into the Global Financial Crisis.The innovative start-up focused on a single SME buying platform and the coordination and escrowing of payments, connecting small businesses directly to a wholesale network. The first of its kind.Adam led the company's restructuring during the GFC and to new investors.

South Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Initial Seed Investor in the fledgling CRM business and helped shape the direction of the organisation from a broad focussed CRM offering to a disruptive specialist innovator in the automotive sector globally. Adam provided board and executive guidance for Go To Market strategy, sales planning, and execution, which saw the start-up grow into international markets and be a very valuable niched player in its field.Pemba Capital Partners acquired vital Software.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Provided Go To Market Expertise and resources to Fuji Xerox's sales channel in the Document Management, MFD & Imaging divisions for the SME market, establishing double-digit growth each year in a very mature and highly competitive market.Adam achieved the Fuji XeroX High Achiever Status each of the four years he was at Fui Xerox meeting budgets that exceed $5M in SME hardware and software sales, whilst growing in double digits each year.

Cremorne, Victoria, Au

A member of the original founding executive team of SEEK and one of the original five people of the whole company. Responsible for the initial Go To Market Entry for SEEK in Australia and oversaw its growth into New Zealand and UK markets. Adam was instrumental in enabling SEEK to become the market leader within 2 years growing its revenues from a zero base to well over $10m in Annual Recurring Revenue. Adam was part of a great team that grew SEEK's revenues and market dominance from its very beginnings. The founding team took SEEK to the Number 1 position in its chosen markets. Seek still holds this position today in various international markets.SEEK is an ASX-listed company valued at over $7 Billion.

Macquarie Park, Nsw, Au

Adam was responsible for Managing Strategic National Government Accounts such as the Australian Defence Department, State Government Bodies and various tertiary bodies as part of an awesome team of four for Canon in its Imaging Division.Adam achieved High achiever status each of the 3 years Adam was at Canon.Canon is a global leader in document management and imaging.

Post Graduate Diploma, International Business

Graduate Diploma Advertising, Advertising

Entrepreneurship Educator Symposium, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Victorian Certificate Of Eduction