Ryan McManus is a technology entrepreneur, executive, investor, board director and advisor.  He is the founder of blockbld, the web3 investment platform; 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 COO 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 SVP of Partnerships and Corporate Development for EVRYTHNG, the IoT Smart Products platform company, acquired by Digimarc.

Ryan is the author of numerous articles on digital transformation, emerging technologies, ESG and corporate strategy and has served as an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, governments, technology startups and non-profits. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Nortech Systems where he chairs the science & technology committee, the advisory board of CarLabs AI, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) New York Chapter board of directors where he chairs the sponsorship committee, and the board of empowerHER where he chairs the development & expansion committee; and 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 University Business School, Duke CE, London Business School, the 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.