Kevin P. Ryan

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Kevin P. Ryan is an Internet executive and entrepreneur in New York City's Silicon Alley. He is perhaps best known as CEO of DoubleClick, which he co-founded in 1996 and over the next nine years built into a multi-billion dollar global industry leader. Under his direction, DoubleClick was awarded the title of "New York Company of the Year" by Silicon Alley Reporter and Ryan himself was named one of the "50 Most Influential Business People" by Crain's New York Business.

DoubleClick was sold in 2005 for $1.1 billion to Hellman and Friedman LLC, and Ryan stepped down as CEO shortly thereafter. DoubleClick was acquired by Google for $3.1 billion in March of 2008.

After leaving DoubleClick, Ryan, along with former DoubleClick CTO and co-founder, Dwight Merriman, founded AlleyCorp [1], a network of six affiliated Internet companies of which he is Chairman and CEO.

1 AlleyCorp
2 DoubleClick
3 Other Companies & Investments
4 Early career
5 Other
6 Personal
7 Quotes
8 See also
9 Notes
10 External links

[edit] AlleyCorp

Headquartered in New York City’s Silicon Alley, AlleyCorp is a network of six affiliated Internet companies founded by Kevin P. Ryan and Dwight Merriman, the former CEO and CTO of DoubleClick, respectively. http://www.alleycorp.com/

Current companies in the AlleyCorp network include:

Alley Insider: an online business news and analysis site that provides news, commentary and discussion on the technology, media and communications industries. http://www.alleyinsider.com/

Gilt Groupe: an invitation-only online community that offers members exclusive access to coveted fashion and luxury lifestyle sample sales, events and brands. http://www.gilt.com/

Music Nation: an online music community that provides bands and musicians resources to better connect and interact with fans, and fans a unique outlet for discovering new music. http://www.musicnation.com/

Panther Express: a content delivery network that ensures rapid and reliable content loading performance to Internet site visitors worldwide. http://www.pantherexpress.net

ShopWiki: an international shopping search engine that provides advanced Web crawling technology to help shoppers find products and make more informed buying decisions. http://www.shopwiki.com/

10gen: a new platform designed to help developers quickly and easily build complex and scalable Web applications. http://www.10gen.com/

[edit] DoubleClick

Ryan joined DoubleClick in 1996, first as president and later as CEO. Under Ryan, DoubleClick grew from a startup of 20 people to a worldwide entity with more than 1500 employees.

[edit] Other Companies & Investments

Ryan is an investor in TheLadders. ^[1]. He was also an early investor and board member of HotJobs (which was sold to Yahoo! for $450 million in 2002).

[edit] Early career

While working at United Media, Ryan launched the Dilbert Web site, based on the popular comic strip created by Scott Adams.^[2] Serving as Senior VP of Business and Finance, he helped lead a restructuring effort that increased United Media's profits fivefold.^[3]

Additionally, Ryan spent time with Euro Disney in France, and as an investment banker with Prudential Investment Corporation in the US and the UK.^[4]

[edit] Other

Ryan currently serves on the board of directors for Human Rights Watch. He's also a member of the INSEAD International Council, the Yale International Council and the Council on Foreign Relations.

In the past, he's been on the boards of the Direct Marketing Association, the Ad Council and NYC 2012 and the advisory board of Doctors Without Borders.

[edit] Personal

Ryan received a B.A. from Yale University in 1985 and his M.B.A. from INSEAD (The Business School for the World).

His middle brother Sean Ryan, is the founder and CEO of Meez, a social entertainment network built around avatars, casual games and virtual items. He was previously CEO of Listen.com (Rhapsody music service) which was acquired by RealNetworks in 2003.

His youngest brother, Conor Kennedy Ryan, is the founder and president of successful NY boutique modeling agency MuseNYC.com

[edit] Quotes

From a 2007 interview with Venture Voice: ^[5]

“I can remember one week in the beginning of 2000 when the stock price, the value of our company went up by a billion dollars and I thought ‘this has got to be the beginning of the end here.’”

“I never came close to quitting. I always knew that the fundamentals of the Internet were going to win out."