We are Entrepreneurial Storytellers. We are here to tell the great, positive, human stories of undiscovered entrepreneurial thinkers from here at home in Los Angeles across the world! There are great human entrepreneurs stories to tell and we don’t believe today’s business media tells enough of them well enough. The Sound Wave in our logo represents our voice, our energy and our point of view on our world. We are a multimedia production company that is pursuing projects across Television, Podcasts, Print and Live events. Our First production is our successful podcast, "Entrepreneurial Thinkers, with Rob Ryan" is a guest interview/conversational format focused on the United States and Latin America, which can be found in Video on YouTube, or on any Audio podcasting platform. The show originated as "Mentors Today" in May 2020, and has expanded to meet the world’s evolving entrepreneurial economies across over 110+ episodes.Our Second show, “Stoppage Time, with Uncle Rob,” is a short form, weekly recap/round up show that debuted in Spring ‘24.

GrowthHax was a nimble but globally connected team of Relationship Capitalists, Consultants & Mentors.We’re deeply networked into the world's developing entrepreneurial economies. Our primary markets were the Americas, spanning all of Latin America and the US. Our Impact: 50+ Clients & 80+ projects in 8 countries9,970+ relationships introduced8,800+ mentor sessions facilitated6,300+ global mentor network built (130 countries/100 industries)310+ speeches & workshops given in (20) countries (68 cities)90+ MentorsToday podcast episodes produced 2020-’23 (100+ by end of 2023.)24 mentorship events produced in 5 cities in Mexico, USA & Argentina (Virtually/In-person)We ran a multinational, bilingual, multi generational remote and distributed team with a global mission and local delivery model.What do we do? We offered (3) services: (1) Relationship Development: We help leaders and their companies to find and develop the relationships they need to grow, while coaching them through what to do with those specific relationships we match make for them. (2) Program Management: We help organizations who produce or host entrepreneurial programming or communities, to deliver better and unique mentorship experiences. (3) Executive Coaching: We help Owners, founders or your team members think about where to go next, why, and how to get there most effectively. We leveraged our decades of unique global experience as well as our unparalleled network of leaders and influencers to build human relationship bridges that enable growth. Who did we help/work with?We have (5) types of clients: early stage venture funded startups, small-medium businesses, VC firms, governments & universities.How did we work? We were compensated via a mix of retained & project based fees + small equity positions in our client portfolio.

Had the immense pleasure, of working with two world class entrepreneur founders, on a project to grow their company, as a member of a small global management team. Positioned the company for a successful exit, via acquisition by Autotask Corporation, owned by Vista Equity Partners.

Corporate Strategy & Operations:- Refocused company on the success of customer, SaaS sales.- Worked with Board to replace management team and change culture.- Raised additional investment capital.- Reduced expenses by more than 220% in 2012.- Shifted business to MRR/Subscription SaaS model.- Engaged new Financial Management Practices/controls- Member of MSPMentor 250 2012 (Industry Influencer List)Sales & Growth Accomplishments:- Doubled Sales in 2011, 2012 and grew 76% in 2013.- Grew MRR (Monthly recurring revenue) SaaS and HaaS by more than 250%- Increased our MSP & VAR customer base by more than 82%- Increased average sales productivity per sales person.- Re-engaged formerly discontented customers and generated new incremental revenues.- Shortened sales cycle 1st contact-1st purchase from 94 days to 28 days in 12 months.- Tripled the companies average contract size in 9 months.- Nearly quadrupled the avg number of devices protected per purchase in 12 months- Increased the historic numbers of purchases per partner by 32% in 9 months.- Increased attach rate of new products to old per sale to over 90% in 6 months.- Deepened strategic 3rd Prty relationship with Kaseya, Vision Solutions & Vembu.- Established innovative customer-community volunteerism program, "HEROware's HERO's"- Implemented new Community communications strategy and programs - Published new Company Newsletter and distributed to 5000+ MSP/VARs per month

I worked on a number of freelance and startup projects. COO & Business Development Officer for Panpacifics Inc, a Xiamen, China based, early stage enterprise SaaS company, VP Business Development for Visuale Enterprise LLC, an Australian based, early stage enterprise Software Company; President, South County Basketball Academy Inc., a San Clemente, Ca. based Youth sports training company. Grew to serve over 350 members, operated 50+ sports clinics throughout So Cal in 24 months.

Co-Founder of a boutique Investment Banking firm that developed and delivered management services to cross-border investment projects in China, Taiwan, India, Japan and the US. We represented the relationship interests of companies, investors and governments in both Asia and the US. Negotiated exclusive, local service partnership-JV’s in China and India.Closed the seed investment capital for the company through Japanese investors.Managed all institutional and Private Equity investor relationships

With my talented partner, we Co-founded our first start-up company to build a hosted, mobile-focused Sales Automation platform in the emerging (CRM) market before the dominance of smartphones, or SaaS software. Ultimately shuttered the company when markets dried up post-Sept 11th recession. - Raised multi-million dollar seed round through Tech Coast Angels.- Established our initial strategic technology, market and service partnerships.- Managed relationships with all of our individual investors.- Closed pipeline of (12) Beta LOI's from Fortune 1000 companies.

- Closed $4.5 m USD in software and services contracts in a span of approximately 140 days during Q3/Q4 ’99.

- Exceeded new business growth goals, revenue quota and services revenue quotas.

- Grew reseller base from 7 partners to (42) partners.- Prospected & developed over (200) new accounts.- Grew Largest Channel partner from run rate of 750k annual sales to $6.75 million within 5 Quarters.- Reengaged inactive relationships with (20 of 22) installed customer accounts and grew new business from each.- Completed fiscal ’96 as number #1 representative in Pacific Southwest Region.- Completed fiscal ’97 with quota attainment of 97.5% versus a quota that increased 400% over that same period, closing 3 $1million dollar revenue sales in each calendar year.- Grew region productivity from historical revenue run rates from $2.0 million to $15.5 million + in fiscal ’97.- Executed a multi-million dollar corporate sponsorship agreement with Arizona State University.

- Grew sales 900% in first 6 months in Direct Sales Division.- As Consumer Team Sales Manager was responsible for team of (12-15) sales people and grew productivity 30% monthly and developed (20+) staff into national account promotions.- Managed hiring and daily operations of (25+) salesperson team.- Grew individual productivity 8-10% per month per sales person in premier account group.- Oversaw growth from $30m USD to $225m USD in annual revenues from Corporate Group.

- Got professional start as head of Broker sales manager at family run financial services firm with father.