Bootstrapping
Business Development
Enterprise Sales
Entrepreneurship
Fundraising
Management
Optimization
Product-Market Fit
Scaling
Venture Capital (VC)

Jan Ryan

CEO 3Hills Ventures , UT Faculty / Entrepreneurship

About Jan Ryan

Jan has 30+ years experience as technology executive and entrepreneur resulting in four successful acquisitions and one IPO. She is equally skilled in large, publicly held enterprises and high growth startups, with operating roles as CEO, COO, and Chief Revenue Officer, and Chief Customer Officer. Her own ventures as a founder were in SaaS, predictive analytics, and customer experience management: she sold a company to Oracle in 2006, and her latest venture, Social Dynamx, was acquired by Lithium Technologies in 2012. Jan is currently on faculty at the University of Texas teaching a class she designed 'Women in Entrepreneurship,' and in 2019 was co-creator of UT's Kendra Scott Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute.


  • Agnostic
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cloud Software & Infrastructure
  • Deep & Frontier Tech
  • Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality
  • Business Finance
  • Business Support
  • Communications
  • Contacts & CRM
  • Content / Media
  • Corporate & Professional Training
  • Goal Setting & KPIs Management Funding
  • HRTech
  • Legal
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Productivity & Performance
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Bootstrapping
  • Business Development
  • Enterprise Sales
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Fundraising
  • Management
  • Optimization
  • Product-Market Fit
  • Scaling
  • Venture Capital (VC)
Faculty & CEO of 3Hills Ventures, University of Texas at Austin
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