Ryan Downe is an American musician and audio engineer. His debut album The Hypocrite was released in 1996 by Elton John's Rocket Records label. Downe opened for The Who[1] and for Iggy Pop[2] during their 1997 tours. Later he and his guitarist Johannes Luley opened Freudenhaus Recording Studio in San Francisco. It was during this time that Ryan is credited with co-engineering and playing/singing on the Grammy nominated album Arepa 3000 by Los Amigos Invisibles.
Downe and Luley later went on to form Moth Vellum a progressive rock band.
From May 2002, he worked for Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life in a variety of roles from content, project management, and chief of staff.[3] In November 2009, he left Linden Lab with founder Philip Rosedale to work on a company called Love Machine Inc.[4]