Ryan Allis is the Founder and Chairman of Hive Digital, and brings decades of successful entrepreneurial experience to his leadership role. His journey as an entrepreneur began at the age of 11 when he founded Allis Computing in 1995. In 2002, Ryan established Hive Digital, originally known as Virante, Inc., before attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in economics and was recognized as a Blanchard Scholar.

Ryan serves as the CEO of Hive Global, a global community for purpose-driven leaders with over 3,600 alumni across 130 countries. He founded Hive Ventures, which invests in socially responsible, high-growth businesses in the USA, Africa, and Latin America. He also runs Coinstack, a weekly newsletter with over 79,000 subscribers, focused on institutional cryptocurrency. Most recently, he founded SaasRise, a growth community for software as a service (SaaS) CEOs and founders with $1M-$100M in ARR.

Ryan’s track record of success includes leading iContact Corporation, an email marketing platform, to a $169 million exit following its acquisition by Vocus in 2012. He is also the author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Zero to One Million, published by McGraw-Hill in 2008, which chronicles one of Hive Digital’s early client successes. Ryan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, underscoring his expertise in business leadership and strategic growth.