As Regional Business Manager at Avista, I help lead external relations strategies in the Spokane Region to strengthen business and community relationships for Avista and create new partnership opportunities. My role involves active participation in community and civic affairs, enhancing Avista's service delivery, and promoting local economic vitality for Spokane and the greater region.

Seconded part-time to the High-Level Climate Champions Team, supporting the UN Race to Zero and UN Race to Resilience campaigns for pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical technology, and healthcare by shaping and delivering the sector’s strategy for a resilient, 1.5C aligned sector at COP 28. Responsibilities include: • Provide overall strategic direction and ensure delivery of the High Level Champions Health Sector work to accelerate progress in aligning health sector systems with the most ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement, with a central focus on achieving net zero emissions globally before 2050, limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and building climate resilience across societies and the economy. • Engage with senior stakeholders across all segments of the Health Sector and its climate action initiatives to build and amplify momentum in the Race to Zero and Race to Resilience. Support the High Level Champions and Senior Leadership Team with appropriate Health Sector materials for high-level engagements.• Identify campaigns and initiatives that will bring high-impact outcomes to COP28 and beyond. Define and implement approaches to better integrate Health Sector leadership into COP28-related opportunities across sectors and geographies.• Oversee and support a work program with high-impact deliverables to accelerate Health Sector transformation in line with achieving a resilient 1.5C net zero emissions economy globally by 2050.

Ryan is the Vice President of Investment and Partnerships at My Green Lab, where he is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with a global portfolio of current and prospective corporate, philanthropic, and sustainability partners to drive My Green Lab’s growth and impact. Specific responsibilities include: - Corporate Fundraising strategy and execution with a seven-figure annual fundraising goal, with donor levels ranging from $5,000 to $200,0000+ and direct solicitation from C-suite.- Donor management for 50+ corporate accounts and grants, including quarterly and semi-annual donor meetings, including ongoing communications and reporting.-Ongoing corporate, state, and federal grant strategy, including preparation and administration. - Strategic corporate philanthropy to support My Green Lab's environmental mission and climate impact.- Project management, including technical writing of industry reports on the environmental and climate impact of the health sector and its practices.

Instruct “ENTR 302: Strategic Thinking”, which focuses on living personal values through business, servant leadership, team dynamics, and applying design thinking methods to business challenges.

Collaborate with regional partner Spokane University District to coordinate and grow the largest intercollegiate business pitch competition in the Inland Northwest, which welcomes ~50-100 student teams annually to compete for $44,000 in award money. Individual activities include: • Solicit support and maintain corporate partnerships to fundraise approximately $60,000 annually for competition award money and operations. • Cultivate and strengthen ongoing relationships with over 75 program funders, community judges, and participating institutions over the 6-month duration of the program. • Provide ongoing communication and transparency to all competition stakeholders, including participating student teams, judges, funders, media, and the public. • Built and refine competition guidelines and policies based on stakeholder feedback.

Create and head campus entrepreneurial education initiatives on behalf of the institution as a community-oriented leader. Independently assemble and grow unique corporate partnerships, communicate priorities, and solicit funding support in collaboration with college leadership. • Secured over $1,000,000 in entrepreneurial education programming in partnership with the NIC Foundation, utilizing grants, donors, and corporate partners. • Spearheaded a ~$750,000 federal grant award, which has led to the creation/ retention of 34 jobs, development of 47 new prototypes, and ~$16,000,000 in go-on funding. • Initiated a strategic roadmap to grow NIC’s entrepreneurship endowment to $17,000,000 by the year 2030 in partnership with NIC leadership and NIC Foundation.

Channeled my own entrepreneurial resourcefulness to establish a full-time turned “side hustle” consulting firm focused on the reduction of commercial building’s energy consumption (Sightline Energy), which expanded into addressing economic inequity through education initiatives (Sightline Group). • Worked with regional and national firms to help reduce energy consumption up to ~30%. • Co-organized a 12-week educational program with mentorship support for artist-based entrepreneurs in Spokane, which to date has impacted ~50 entrepreneurs in 3 cohorts.

Launched and grew a startup-assistance program Startup Spokane from scratch, unlocking new entrepreneurship activity in the Spokane region and growing the entrepreneurial community. • Pioneered the “front door” of the region’s startup community by building 40+ new entrepreneurial educational events and opening a 2,000 sq.ft.co-working space.• Coordinated a startup network of 100+ regional service providers, advisors, and funders. • Designed a business mentorship program, which connected 70+ mentors to startups. • Fostered 10 corporate partnerships to sustain and grow the program’s six-figure budget. • Partnered with Washington Department of Commerce to launch Startup Washington 365, which delivered entrepreneurship assistance to the underrepresented and rural communities of Eastern Washington.

Responsible for full-building energy modeling, life cycle cost analysis, and LEED standard criteria achievement for large scale mechanical engineering projects in the commercial, government, and non-profit sector. •Activities include multi-source data collection and entry, systematic simulation analysis, report building, and recommendation development for lowest-impact financial and environmental options. •Software Usage Includes Trane Trace 700, Carrier HAP, E-Quest, Energy Plus W/Sketch-Up, and AutoCAD

Collaborated to launch a new regional economic development organization that prioritized entrepreneurship, innovation, and community networks to support economic resiliency in Idaho. • Founded and executed over 15 new entrepreneurial focused educational events in year one, including a three-day “Festival” event with over 150 people in attendance. • Spearheaded new corporate partnerships and set regional economic development goals that still exist to this day, helping to drive innovative economic activity in the region. • Departed the organization in 2014 to accept the position of Entrepreneurship Program Director for Greater Spokane Incorporated F/T, and manage Sightline Energy P/T.Innovation Collective is about lighting the internal pilot light of Coeur d’Alene’s entrepreneurial community, and then stoking the fire. We educate. We create room for dialogue. We develop spaces for us all to thrive. We're here to grow an ecosystem that can support those with the aspiration for something more, and are bringing together the great minds of our area who dare to think different.

Responsible for the technical execution and quality of Idaho’s $31 million ARRA weatherization program, including program oversight, employee training for 40+ employees, and database accountability. •Activities included researching industry standards and trends, developing new standards, and presenting these recommendations for approval to Idaho’s 12-person technical review board.

Responsible for the quotas, work quality, and data accuracy of a four-member energy auditor team. •Activities included client project management, data entry and analysis, ROI analysis, industry research, vendor relations, and technical standards development. •Promoted to Weatherization Technical Monitor Internally.