Ryan McManus is a technology entrepreneur, executive, investor, board director, and advisor. He is the founder of blockbld, the web3 investment platform; founder of the digital transformation and business model advisory firm techtonic.io; and managing director of the venture capital firm Inflexhn Partners. He previously founded Accenture’s Digital Transformation practice and served as the Accenture Strategy chief operating officer and leader of the firm’s Corporate Strategy and International Expansion practices. Ryan also built the world’s leading smart products ecosystem, enabling the digitization of trillions of physical products as the president and senior vice president of partnerships and corporate development for EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things smart products platform company acquired by Digimarc.

Ryan is the author of numerous articles on digital transformation; emerging technologies; environmental, social, and governance issues; and corporate strategy and has served as an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, governments, technology startups, and nonprofits. He is a member of the board of directors of Nortech Systems, where he chairs the science and technology committee; the advisory board of CarLabs.ai; the NACD New York Chapter board of directors, where he chairs the sponsorship committee; and the board of empowerHER, where he chairs the development and expansion committee; he previously served on two advisory boards with the Aspen Institute. He is a frequent speaker on digital transformation, leadership, and strategy internationally, including delivering executive education programs to over 10,000 leaders with Columbia Business School, Duke Corporate Education, London Business School, NACD, G100, and other institutions. Ryan earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has worked on the ground in over 45 countries, and is fluent in English and French.