Leadership
Dan Ryan - Chief Executive
Officer
Dan Ryan has over 21 years experience in the communications
industry. Most recently, Mr. Ryan founded AdGorilla, which provides
turn-key advertisement insertion equipment and sales to small- and
medium-sized cable television operators nationwide, as well as
Internet advertising to website hosts via AdGorilla's iCapture
technology.
Mr. Ryan is also the founder of Precis Communications, a company
offering cable television and high speed data services to consumers
in Utah, Arizona and Nevada, and Blue Vista Communications, a
satellite uplinking and transport company built to deliver
broadcast signals to rural cable consumers in Utah and Nevada.
Prior to founding Precis, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Charter
Communication's Rocky Mountain Group, a region with 260,000
customers in 12 western states. Mr. Ryan created the division by
hiring 14 management team members and reorganizing the entire field
staff. The region was created from 13 different company
acquisitions. In 2000, Charter Communications recognized Mr. Ryan's
outstanding performance by nominating him as its representative to
the CTAM Advanced Executive Training at Northwestern
University.
Previous to joining Charter, Mr. Ryan was executive director of
operations at Rifkin and Associates, Inc. (R&A), a medium-sized
cable operator that was purchased by Charter Communications in
1999. Mr. Ryan was responsible for managing one of R&A's cable
partnerships and was instrumental in securing financing for
R&A's acquisitions. Mr. Ryan also managed R&A's rate
regulation activities and was R&A's key liaison to Capitol Hill
during the development of the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
Prior to entering the cable television industry, Mr. Ryan worked
for US West as an economist and for Lockheed Martin as an economist
and operations research manager. Mr. Ryan holds a Master's degree
in Economics from New Mexico State University.
Mr. Ryan is a prior board member of the American Cable
Association; a national lobbying group for small cable television
operators.
CONTACT: dryan@adgorilla.com
Ray Dowdle joined AdGorilla in October 2009. Mr. Dowdle is
responsible for the day-to-day operations of the AdGorilla, LLC
group of companies with a particular focus on generating
advertising revenues for all of AdGorilla's cable and broadcast
properties within the framework of an ever-changing advertising
environment.
Ray is the founder of VarVee, Inc., a internet-based, sports
media company that collects high school score and statistical
information for television stations and newspapers.
Previously, as Vice President/Sales for FOX Television Stations for
15 years Mr. Dowdle was responsible for all revenue generated for
FOX's broadcast and cable sales operations in Denver. He created
and successfully executed sales strategies for the launches of
multiple news and entertainment programs. He has negotiated and
sold advertising contracts for spot television, spot cable, sports
sponsorships, internet initiatives, promotional partnerships and
program acquisitions.
CONTACT: rdowdle@adgorilla.com
Ms. Burtraw has acted in various roles with AdGorilla for over 4
years, working her way into her present responsibilites as VP of
all sales efforts of the company. Ms, Burtraw directs to
efforts of the cable ad sales team and is also responsible for
technical sales related to AdGorillaq equipment. She holds a
BA in Economics from CU Boulder.
CONTACT: jburtraw@adgorilla.com
Ms. Grewe has been successfully generating revenue for
AdGorillatv cable clients for over 2 years. She has been
instrumental in launching ad sales efforts for new television
clients all across the US, and is now working primarily on ad sales
for the cable netowrk JLTV. Ms. Grewe earned her BA in
Political Science from University of Colorado, Boulder.
CONTACT: egrewe@adgorilla.com