Ryan is the CEO and Founder of Kyndi, a global provider of the Generative AI Answer Engine for the Natural-Language-Enabled Enterprise, an AI-powered platform that empowers people to do their most meaningful work. Before founding Kyndi, Ryan was a Senior Associate at NextFED in Arlington, VA, the pre-eminent Deep Tech commercialization and M&A firm for the federal market. He worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory to launch startups based on technology developed at the lab.