CEO and member of the Phoenix Board of Directors and responsible for developing company vision and growth strategy,and the organizational execution needed to guide Phoenix to the next level of growth and value creation for our customers, employees, and investors. At Phoenix, we help multi-site, commercial building owners and operators like facility and energy managers more efficiently operate large building portfolios by integrating all their existing IP-enabled, assets that manage HVAC, Lighting, and Refrigeration into a unified SaaS platform. Value – we enable our business users to do much more with less – reduce energy expense, reduce unplanned maintenance and downtime, reduce Scope 1 and 2 CO2 emissions and help CFO’s dramatically reduce Opex without spending Capex on new equipment.

In addition to my existing, business and corporate development duties, I now also lead our Product Team, tasked with managing our product development and roadmap management operations.

Phoenix is an IoT innovator in smart buildings and connected machines. Phoenix controls, manages, and monitors connected energy assets for enterprise businesses to reduce energy and carbon, improve energy asset management, and improve occupant comfort. Ryan's role is focused on building sales channels, technology alliances, and new lines of business that help Phoenix monetize it's software toolset and data, grow topline revenue and make Phoenix's offering more valuable for it's customers. As well, Ryan manages corporate development activities that relate to capital funding and M&A.

Ryan provides advisory and executive management expertise to start-ups, growth-stage companies, and venture investors needing an experienced executive to provide functional domain expertise and operational horsepower. Ryan's current focus areas include distributed energy resources (solar, battery storage, CHP, micro-grids), electric vehicle charging/optimization, data platforms for transportation and commercial buildings management. For middle-market and Fortune 1000 corporate technology clients, Ryan focuses on the following:- Portfolio, business or line/platform strategy- Go-to-market strategy - Sales and marketing operations - IP commercialization, strategic partnerships and licensing - Specialty service and solution productization and roll-out management- Business cases and business plans from concept to fully-vetted and fundable plans- Make vs buy- Competitive response and horizon scanning- Interim management (CEO, Sales and Marketing)

Active mentor for climate-tech companies in 2022 Cohort.

Saascharge's solution enables companies to create and operate a network of charging stations for communities, retailers, utilities & CCAs, universities, and enterprise retailers.

Centrica Business Solutions was established to deliver distributed energy solutions for large energy users as part of a more flexible energy landscape. Our offerings include energy insight platforms, technology led energy asset monetization, and on-site energy efficiency and generation projects.Centrica plc (LSE:CNA,) is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies with over 20 million customers and 34,000 employees worldwide. We are committed to being the most recommended energy and services provider and leading the transition to a low carbon society.

Ryan is responsible for Axiom Exergy’s commercial strategy and manages related key functional areas including sales, marketing, product management and strategic partnerships. Additionally, Ryan shares responsibility with the founding team in areas related to fundraising and technology commercialization. Axiom Exergy offers supermarkets and other cold storage facilities the first energy storage solution designed specifically for central refrigeration systems. Axiom reduces costs by providing a behind-the-meter energy storage solution that shifts up to six hours of cooling load to inexpensive, off-peak hours reducing on-peak demand by up to 40% and by providing back-up cooling, to protect inventory during power outages. For utilities, Axiom Exergy offers a highly scalable, behind-the-meter solution for long duration ancillary services at 1/4 the cost of equivalent, electrochemical systems.

Advisory Board member helping Axiom Exergy commercialize a truly novel energy storage technology. See more at: http://www.axiomexergy.com

Generalist mentor to teams and alumnus of Cleantech Open's Western Division

The Clean Energy Trust was created to accelerate the development of Midwest clean energy businesses by connecting entrepreneurs, researchers and early stage companies with the expertise and capital needed to become sustainable.CET leverages the region’s world-class research institutions, corporations and financial firms to cultivate a clean energy ecosystem, attracting top researchers and entrepreneurs to invigorate the region’s economy.

As a key part of Siemens Infrastructure and Cities Sector, we focus on providing transportation and infrastructure solutions to cities, municipalities and large public & private campuses. These solutions include turn-key street lighting conversions with performance-based financing, advanced parking solutions, next generation integrated traffic control and electric vehicle charging. As well, we wrap a suite of customized services around our technology solutions to help our customers control costs and ensure proper service levels. By outfitting city infrastructure with SCADA controls and a suite of next-generation sensors and leveraging cloud platforms we deliver highly useful information and intelligence in real-time that enable our customer to better manage their assets and control costs.

Direct strategic projects including the following: sales channel growth and optimization, major product line go-to-market strategies, innovation and new technology development and assessment, intellectual property commercialization planning, market and competitor analysis, strategic partner and M&A identification and negotiation, and any related portfolio growth planning for businesses in North America and several global markets.

Led firm’s business development efforts by building relationships with key prospects and managing account service quality for equity sponsor expectations. Our primary customers were middle-market private equity firms and their manufacturing-oriented portfolio companies where we provided pre and post-acquition due diligence and operating improvement services.

Served and marketing and business strategy leader for an aerospace company's technology incubator which was focused on alternative energy generation technologies (fuel cell tech), battery technology and electric motor fabrication development. I developed product and R&D guidelines for emerging, alternative energy markets and developed business plans for future commercialization and early market penetration.

As an founding member of the management team at Airborne Cycles I helped build the brand from one product category to over 8 major product lines and several accessory lines. We became the premier e-commerce seller of customizable, hi-end bicycles sold internationally with distribution in Europe. I helped sell the company to Huffy Bicycle Corporation where I was retained to develop the brand and enter new distribution channels.