Ryan is an award-winning director and producer with degrees in economics and finance from UCLA and the London School of Economics. Ryan began his career in private equity with Capital Resource Partners before launching his first tech startup in the travel space. Ryan eventually landed back at USC where he got his MFA in film and went on to direct the award-winning feature film ‘A Colombia’. After launching in 2007, The Buzz Lab quickly became one of the premier content and event production companies in the technology industry, working with clients such as Oracle, Adobe, eBay, PayPal, Hulu, PwC, the National Institute of Health, Uber. Answering the need of top-tier production companies to have a highly secure, scalable, and high-quality virtual event platform, Ryan launched BuzzCast in early 2020 to bring an enterprises scale solution to the marketplace.