Ryan is the founder and Executive Director of Impact Montana in 2014.
He is a native Montanan and retired in December 2020 from the Montana Army National Guard after 21 years of service, deploying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 with the 639th Quartermaster Company and in 2018/19 as the Battalion Chaplain for the 495th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion.
Ryan has worked in many military and veteran support capacities in the military, state government, and private sector.