Ryan began his career in oil and gas after a long tenured career within the automotive industry. The majority of Ryan’s automotive career was with Federal Assembly Inc. in business development and marketing. After expanding a staff of in-house QA personnel within a Tier I supplier to Toyota from 30 to as many as 92.  Ryan then created a spin-off operation providing on-site sub assembly and QA/QC services to various clients.

Ryan applied his business development knowledge and technical experience in entering the oil and gas industry in 2010, joining Flour working in business development and recruitment primarily within the LNG and EPCI teams. Ryan joined Rigzone’s RigLogix team in 2012 providing sales and business development/marketing within the Americas and Asia regions and achieved record new business sales. He continued these efforts through the acquisition of RigLogix by Westwood Global Energy Group in February 2018.