About Ryan
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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 140 employees, 40,000 customers, and $20 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 is a social entrepreneur and an entrepreneur based in North Carolina. His lifetime focus is to work to reduce poverty and human suffering at home and in developing nations while building stronger communities and encouraging access to technology, healthcare, education, and nutrition. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors for Nourish International, Leadership Triangle, EO Raleigh-Durham, and the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. Ryan has been a keynote speaker at conferences from Los Angeles to Uganda 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 8000 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, a non-profit foundation that works to reduce hunger and poverty in North Carolina and in developing countries. Ryan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was an economics major and a Blanchard Scholar.
Media & Speaking Opps To discuss interview or speaking opportunities contact Chuck Hester.
Contact Information Ryan can be reached directly for media and other inquiries via (919) 459-1447 or ryan [at] icontact.com. For Additional Information See |
“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!” Eric J. Corl
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