Management Team
Dan Ryan- Chief Executive
Officer
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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 - President,
AdGorilla
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Ray Dowdle joined AdGorilla in October 2009. Mr. Dowdle is
responsible for generating advertising revenues for all of
AdGorilla's cable, broadcasting and syndicated 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
Jenna Burtraw - Vice
President, Technical Sales and Operations
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Ms. Burtraw holds a BA Economics from CU Boulder and has acted
in various roles with AdGorilla for over 4 years.
CONTACT: jburtraw@adgorilla.com
Erin Grewe - Vice President,
Advertising Sales
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Ms. Grewe earned her BA in Political Science from CU boulder and
has acted in various roles with AdGorilla for over 2 years. Prior
to joining AdGorilla Erin worked as sales manager for Nordstrom
department stores.
CONTACT: egrewe@adgorilla.com
Other Management
Information
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Ray recognizes that while he does now occupy a windowed office,
the one that is in fact the largest in the suite, he never did
transfer ownership of his BMW M5 to Dan Ryan as required by
AdGorilla law. Dan hereby calls out Ray to a beer drinking contest,
the winner of which shall own the title of
god-of-the-other-person.
CONTACT: dryan@adgorilla.com