AdGorilla Management Team
- Dan Ryan - Chief Executive Officer
- Brian Stuart - President, AdGorillaq
- Carla Cortis - Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy
- Ray Dowdle - Senior Vice President, Advertising Sales
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 |
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Brian Stuart joined RevGen Systems as President in 2006. He is responsible for directing RevGen Systems’ 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. Prior to joining RevGen Systems, 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@adgorilla.com |
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With over 19 years of impressive achievements in sales and sales management within the cable industry, Carla brings solid expertise to AdGorilla, leading the Sales and Distribution team. Before joining AdGorillai, Carla was Vice President, Distribution and Field Marketing for Lifetime Entertainment Services. Over her 4 year tenure at Lifetime, she was responsible for creating and implementing strategic sales campaigns, including the launch and distribution plan of a new network, and increasing revenue associated with affiliate advertising sales. Carla was also responsible for the creation and implementation of a nationwide program that distributed digital equipment, secured 2,500 distribution agreements and increased division revenues by 20%. Consistent thorough each project was her ability to achieve a positive and measurable ROI. Carla developed alliances with major distribution partners and managed key business development. Prior to Lifetime, Carla was with E!Entertainment Services and Playboy Entertainment Group. As Vice President of Affiliate Sales and Distribution for AdGorilla, Carla’s primary responsibility is to create strategic sales strategies for execution by the AdGorillatv, AdGorillaq and AdGorillai Sales Teams. CONTACT: ccortis@adgorilla.com
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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.
CONTACT: rdowdle@adgorilla.com |