Patrick

Partner

Dr. Patrick Spaulding Ryan is an accomplished professional with a diverse background in entrepreneurship, law, academia, and technology. He is a founder, attorney, author, professor, and investor who has invested in over 200 deep-tech startups.  Dr. Ryan lives and works in Silicon Valley.

Dr. Ryan's expertise spans various domains, focusing on the intersection of regulated tech and global scale.  He has held several high-profile positions at prestigious organizations such as Google, TikTok, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. During his nine-year tenure at Google, he served as a Trust, Strategy & Engineering Principle, contributing to the company's growth by overseeing programs in Google Cloud and developing strategies for Google in complicated markets like China, Russia, and Turkey.   At TikTok, he led security and regulatory programs on a global scale, including co-director of the web3 research lab.

In addition to his professional accomplishments in the private sector, Dr. Ryan is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.  He was the faculty director of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He earned his Ph.D. at the Katholie and a doctor of Jurisprudence from University of Texas School of Law.