Ryan leads Prescient’s global Competitive Strategy Practice, partnering with clients to anticipate market dynamics, strengthen competitive readiness and make more confident strategic decisions.
Ryan has worked with pharmaceutical and biotech companies ranging from top 20 global organizations to emerging biotechs, across a broad range of therapeutic areas, diseases, and assets. He brings deep experience helping senior leaders cut through the noise, identify what’s most important, and translate insight into action.
Prior to Prescient, Ryan held senior executive roles at STEM Healthcare, where he led the Americas business and global operations. In these roles, he worked closely with commercial, medical and market access leaders to generate actionable insights across sales, field medical, reimbursement, key account management, nurse educator and other field-based teams. His work helped clients identify performance barriers, tighten their strategic approach, improve execution and strengthen cross-functional alignment.
Ryan also served as Chief Growth Officer at Verix, a biopharma-focused AI and machine learning company, where he developed expertise in the application of AI to optimize commercial effectiveness, customer engagement and decision-making.
Earlier in his career, Ryan held sales, marketing and operational leadership roles at Shire Pharmaceuticals. Ryan holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas and executive education credentials from MIT Sloan and Wharton. He earned his BA from Duke University, where he was a varsity baseball athlete and team captain. He describes himself as strategic, competitive and pragmatic.
