Ryan, a partner based in our Washington DC office, has helped clients navigate the complex landscape of payments, fintech, and financial services since 2006.
He advises leading financial institutions, fintechs, networks, processors, merchants, investors and other industry players on a wide range of strategic challenges. Before joining Oliver Wyman, he held senior consulting roles at First Annapolis Consulting and Accenture Strategy.
Much of Ryan’s work focuses on helping clients build new payments or fintech business lines, launch innovative products and expand into new geographic markets. He also specializes in developing and strengthening key partnerships with networks, processors, banking-as-a-service providers and co-branding partners.
He has a particular passion for the intersection of strategy and regulation in payments and financial services — whether advising a fintech on the best chartering or licensing path, helping a bank implement controls to support a new product launch, or crafting a strategic response to upcoming changes in interchange regulation.
Over nearly 20 years in payments, the only constant has been change — driven by emerging technologies, new business models, shifting regulations, mega-mergers and macroeconomic surprises. Strategies must keep pace
Ryan earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, with majors in finance, marketing, and managerial economics, and holds a BS from Wake Forest University.
Outside of his role as a partner at Oliver Wyman, Ryan balances his professional pursuits with a commitment to family life as a devoted father of two. He enjoys traveling and reading about history.