Mr. Ryan is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Almaz Capital, an international venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley, which facilitates the global expansion of promising startups. Mr. Ryan has served as a director of Nebius Group N.V. since 2011, where he serves on the audit committee, ClickHouse since 2021 and PGI since 2005. He is a member of the Advisory Panel at Harvard Global Advisory Council and Capital Group International.
Mr. Ryan co-founded United Financial Group (UFG) in 1994, and served as its Chairman and CEO until 2006. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Ryan served as Chief Country Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bank Group in Russia, following Deutsche Bank’s acquisition of UFG’s investment banking business. From 2008 to 2022, he served as Chairman of UFG Asset Management, which was founded as part of UFG in 1996 and had remained independent from the UFG acquisition by Deutsche Bank. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Ryan also worked as a consultant for Deutsche Bank.
In 2013, Mr. Ryan co-founded Liberty Energy Trust and Liberty Infrastructure Trust (Conshohocken, USA), which provides innovative solutions for financing and managing energy related and infrastructure projects in Pennsylvania and Eastern United States.
Mr. Ryan actively supports civic and cultural institutions, contributing his time and resources to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Temple University, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Kimmel Center.
With nearly three decades of experience in global finance, Mr. Ryan brings to the Board high-level expertise and a deep knowledge of financial matters, complex transactions involving large, multinational corporations and international markets.