Nationality US Title Chairman Name Ryan Allis | Occupation Entrepreneur
Author Website Making a Difference Organization IContact Corporation | |
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Born 1984 Education University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Residence San Francisco, California, United States Books Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to One Million Dollars in Sales Similar People Matt Mickiewicz, Justin Kan, Elliott Bisnow | ||
Geny smart tech and smart policy ryan allis at tedxbeaconstreet
Ryan Allis was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of iContact from 2003 through its sale to Vocus for $169 million in February 2012. Allis is now the Chairman of Connect in San Francisco, the Chairman of the Hive Global Leaders Program and a member of the United Nations Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council.
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- Geny smart tech and smart policy ryan allis at tedxbeaconstreet
- Ryan allis on the big idea with donny deutsch hi res
- Early life and education
- Service
- Political involvement
- Philanthropy
- Recognition
- References
In 2008, Allis wrote a book on entrepreneurship called Zero to One Million (McGraw-Hill, 2008).
Ryan allis on the big idea with donny deutsch hi res
Early life and education
Allis was born in 1984 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Andrew Allis and Pauline Middleton Allis. He attended school in Bradenton, Florida where he graduated from Manatee High School. While in high school in Florida, Allis built a web site design agency called Virante.
Allis studied economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is now completing the MBA program at Harvard Business School.
Service
Allis is a member of the United Nations Foundation Global Entrepreneurs Council, which is made up of ten entrepreneurs who advise the United Nations Foundation. In May 2012, he visited the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya as part of a United Nations Foundation delegation. In June 2011, Allis joined a delegation from the United States Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development to Cairo, Egypt to mentor Egyptian technology entrepreneurs and judge the U.S. State Department NexGen IT Boot Camp.
From 2008 until 2012 Allis was the Board Chairman of the international development non-profit organization Nourish International. Allis founded Hive Ventures, an investment fund investing in firms in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and the United States.
Political involvement
Allis served as a National Co-Chairperson for Technology for Obama along with Marc Benioff and Reid Hoffman and worked with the Obama 2012 Presidential Campaign.
Philanthropy
At iContact, Allis created the 4-1s Corporate Social Responsibility Program through which the company donated 1% of payroll, product, employee time, and company equity to 501(c)(3) programs, modeled after the Salesforce.com 1/1/1 philanthropic model. Following the sale of iContact, Allis and his co-founder Aaron Houghton established a $1.2 million iContact Foundation Scholarship Program for the children of past iContact employees. He has also contributed financially to the Council for Entrepreneurial Development in Durham, North Carolina and to Nourish International.