Ryan is currently an MBA candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before joining Point72 Ventures, he served eight years as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps, including two deployments to the Asia-Pacific region as both a Rifle and Weapons Platoon Commander. His final tour of active duty was in Washington, D.C., where he served as a Department of Defense Legislative Fellow in Congress, as a Marine Corps Legislative Liaison to the House of Representatives, and on the White House National Security Council staff in the Defense Policy and Strategy Directorate. Ryan holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Carthage College.