Leadership
- Dan Ryan - Chief Executive Officer, AdGorilla
- Kim Gilmartin - Chief Operating Officer, AdGorilla
- Brian Stuart - President, AdGorillaq
- Mike Puckett - President, AdPro Networks
Dan Ryan has over 18 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
Kim Gilmartin has over 15 years of experience in the cable and telecommunications industry. Currently, she serves as Chief Operating Officer of AdGorilla. She previously served as President of Blue Vista Media, a satellite uplinking and transport company built to deliver broadcast signals to rural cable consumers in Utah and Nevada, overseeing insertion of national advertising during unused local avails on cable channels, and distribution of the signal to small cable systems via satellite. This allowed cable systems to recognize a revenue share from advertisers, without the expense of local ad-insertion equipment.
Prior to starting Blue Vista Media, Kim was Director of Sales and New Business for the Comcast Media Center. She was responsible for sales and distribution of HITS digital applications, including HITS Classic, HITS2Home, Quick Take, and Broadcast ITV.
Before joining the Comcast Media Center in March 2002, Kim served as Director of Cable Affiliate Sales for WSNet. Prior to that, she was Director of Business Development for then TCI-owned HITS, where she developed a business & economic model for deploying digital cable services to over 100 MSO’s and independent cable operators.
Kim began her cable career at Triax Communications in Denver, CO and Across Media Networks, a turn-key photo advertising company, where she held various management positions in field and affiliate operations. Before entering the cable industry, Kim spent a short time in radio and broadcast television.
Kim graduated with honors from Florida State University, with a Bachelor of Science in Communications and Broadcast Television.
Contact: kgilmartin@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
As the President of AdPro Networks, LLC, Mike’s primary focus is to oversee all advertising sales aspects for the company, which includes local, regional and national sales; encoding and traffic and billing. Since January 2004, Mike has increased AdPro’s turnkey systems from the original four to thirty-five and centralized the traffic and billing operations, as well as the encoding operations for the company.
Mike was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and returned there after a two-year hiatus as the Director of Owned and Operated Stations and Network Affiliates for Resort Sports Network in Portland, Maine. At RSN he was in charge of three owned and operated stations in Breckenridge, Colorado; Lake Tahoe, California and Conway, New Hampshire. He also directed over 35 affiliate stations across the country.
Mike has been in the cable advertising sales industry for over 24 years, with a majority of those years being in management.
He began his career with Cowlitz Cableview in Longview, Washington in 1981 and moved to Vancouver, Washington in 1985 to take a position as Account Executive for Columbia Cable. In 1987, he was named Ad Sales Manager for both the Vancouver and Beaverton, Oregon offices of Columbia Cable.
In 1990, he moved to Bend, Oregon to become Vice President of Central Oregon Cable Advertising. With Mike at the helm, COCA won seven straight Cable Advertising Bureau awards for system sales and promotions while generating over 1.2 million dollars in revenue for the 20,000+ subscriber system. He also did dual duty, spending five years as the Marketing Director for parent company, Bend Cable.
Mike has served as the Vice President for the Oregon Cable Telecommunications Association and is an incredible sports fan – having worked as a sports writer and photographer for the Daily News in Longview Washington for over 15 years. Mike has been published nationally on numerous occasions.
Mike has been married to wife Julie for 26 years and has two children – Abbey and Adam, both having graduated from George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon.
Contact: mpuckett@adpronetworks.com