Ryan P. Allis is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iContact, the leading provider of email marketing tools for small businesses. Ryan has built Durham-based iContact from its start in July 2003 to its current size with over 80 employees, 18,000 customers, and $10 million in annual sales. In 2005, Ryan was named by BusinessWeek as one of the "Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25." He is the author of the book Zero to One Million: How I Built a Company To $1 Million in Sales and How You Can Too, published by McGraw-Hill.
Ryan has been a keynote speaker at conferences from Los Angeles to London on the topics of building companies, finding and following your passion, raising venture capital, email marketing, search marketing, and social entrepreneurship. He speaks to over 3000 people per year to share his passion for helping aspiring entrepreneurs set, pursue, and reach their dreams.
As a team leader with the Lead America Entrepreneurship Conference, Ryan traveled the United States teaching entrepreneurship to high school students and as a speaker with the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour he has traveled to colleges across the country. Ryan has been featured on ABC News and The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and in Fortune Small Business, Success Magazine, Entrepreneur, Investors' Business Daily, the Daily Times of India, and Young Money Magazine.
Ryan is the founder of The
Humanity Campaign, the founder of the entrepreneurship resource Zeromillion.com, and a member of EO
Raleigh-Durham. Ryan’s long-term goals include being a U.S. Senator and starting a foundation that works to reduce poverty and improve healthcare and education in developing nations. Ryan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was an economics major and a Blanchard Scholar.
My Passion My dream and passion is to change the world on a global scale through entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, investing, and public service to end extreme poverty and hunger, create global access to opportunity, healthcare, education, and technology, end humans killing humans on a mass scale through war and genocide, and create a sustainable environment and stronger communities in North Carolina, the United States, and the world.
What's Future Taking a company public, MPP/MBA degree, wireless electricity, fusion power, sustainable alternative energy, working to reduce poverty in developing nations, writing a best-selling book, being a U.S. Senator.
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"I have seen over 50 of the country’s leading business and motivational speakers including Guy Kawasaki, Brian Tracy, Robert Kiyosaki, Zig Ziglar, and Donald Trump speak in person. Ryan Allis’ speaking skills and depth of knowledge put him right up there with the best. For anyone, that’s quite an accomplishment. For a twenty-two year old, it’s incredible. I have a feeling that Ryan Allis will be a household name within the next decade. Keep your eyes open!"
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"Forgive Ryan Allis for being only 22 years old. Forgive him for imparting timeless wisdom based upon his own real-life experience as a entrepreneurial superstar. The kid just can't help it. He has made a million-dollar dream come true and he shares how he did it this roller-coaster-of-a-read book. Your banker will love you for reading Zero to One Million."
Jay Conrad Levinson
The Father of Guerrilla Marketing
Author, "Guerrilla Marketing" series of books
Awards
Awards & Recognition
no.
Site
Organization
Date
1
Top 40 Business Leaders Under 40
Triangle Business
Journal
April 2006
2
Life Patron
for Leadership in Entrepreneurship & Poverty Reduction
Ryan is available
for speaking engagements. For more information on booking Ryan at your
conference or event, email Chuck Hester (chuck [at] broadwick.com) for rates and additional details. Ryan's past and upcoming appearances
include:
Past
& Upcoming Appearances
What
When
Where
Congressional
Leadership Conference, Lake
Forest College
Jun
2003
Chicago, IL
Lead
America Business Conference Bentley
College,
Jul
2003
Boston, MA
CEO
Conference
Nov 2003
Washington,
D.C.
National
Leadership Conference
Jun 2003
Boston,
MA
Students
in Free Enterprise National Conference
May 2004
Kansas
City, NC
IHS
Globalization & Poverty Seminar, Brown
University,
June 2004
Providence, RI
Lead
America Entrepreneurship Conference, Bentley
College