Management

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@adgorillai.com

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Carla Cortis - EVP, Corporate Strategy AdGorilla, LLC

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 Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy for AdGorilla, Carla’s primary responsibility is to create strategic sales strategies for execution by the AdGorilla Sales Team for Distribution of AdGorilla technologies.

CONTACT: ccortis@adgorilla.com

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