Leadership
- Dan Ryan - Chief Executive Officer, AdGorilla
- Brian Stuart - President, AdGorillaq
Dan Ryan has over 21 years experience in various aspects of the communications industry. Most recently, Mr. Ryan founded 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. 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 Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture Economics and a Master’s degree in Economics from New Mexico State University.
Mr. Ryan is a board member of the American Cable Association; a national lobbying group for small cable television operators.
Contact: dryan@AdGorilla
Brian Stuart joined AdGorillaq as President in 2006. He is responsible for directing AdGorillaq’ technology strategy, with a focus on customers' technology initiatives, including developing a custom-fit, low-priced, reliable digital-into-digital solution for commercial advertising insertion equipment.
Mr. Stuart has more than 25 years leadership experience in engineering and manufacturing, in implementing technology advances for both consumer products and cable operators, with a successful track record of growing sales and improving profitability.
Prior to joining AdGorillaq, he was the President of Ad Systems, Inc., where he was responsible for the development of a state-of-the-art advertising insertion equipment platform for the broadband industry, and where he managed an installed equipment base of approximately three million dollars in over 200 systems deployed nationwide.
Mr. Stuart began his career at Rockwell International, where he worked in the production of aircraft and ground communication radio. After spending several years in the engineering field at Rockwell, Mr. Stuart formed Integra-Tech, Inc., a service center for consumer products. Mr. Stuart sold the company in 1995, after which he began his career in the cable television industry.
Mr. Stuart received a degree in Electronics from Weber State University.
Contact: bstuart@rev-gen.com