With over 20 years of experience in the energy, finance, and real estate industries, Ryan has built a career on investing in and building high-growth concepts around untapped opportunity. With family roots in oil and gas that extend back almost 170 years, Ryan founded Cunningham Energy in 2008 after several successful oil discovery ventures in West Virginia and Kentucky. In his current roles, Ryan leads strategic business planning and acquisitions, participates as a key member of the sales team, and conducts complex negotiations with government entities in the US, Canada, and Panama. Ryan is also involved with real estate development projects through several family and strategic partnerships which he began as early as 2002. Before his work in energy and real estate, Ryan trained at a Wall Street investment firm as an equity trader and investor for ultra-high-net-worth families and individuals, hedge funds, and endowments. Ryan’s business-minded approach and broad range of expertise makes him a sought-after advisor for a wide network of investors in New York, Connecticut, Southern Florida, and the Carolinas.Specialties: Private Wealth Investing, Structured Commodity Finance, Equity Trading, Commercial Real Estate, Petroleum, A&D Upstream/Downstream Oil & Gas, commodity tokenization.