Thomas M. Ryan Chief Executive Officer

Tom was one of three co-founders of ICR and currently serves as the company’s CEO. Since 1998, he and his senior team have built the company into one of the fastest growing and largest independent communications consultancies in the United States by combining senior-level capital markets experience and deep sector knowledge with traditional corporate communications expertise. Throughout his career, he has analyzed companies from the perspective of corporate communications consultant, investment banker, and Wall Street Journal ranked sell-side analyst, and these varied perspectives have introduced a unique dimension to his counsel, which is currently focused on the consumer sector. Before co-founding ICR, Tom served as Managing Director in the equity research department of BT Alex. Brown (Deutsche Bank) and he has participated either as an investment banker, a sell-side analyst, or communications professional, in billions of dollars worth of investment banking transactions. Tom has extensive domestic and international relationships and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the International Herald Tribune. He has also been featured on CNNfn, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television. Tom has guest lectured at Harvard Business School and is the co-author of “Using Investor Relations to Maximize Equity Value” published by Wiley Finance in 2005. He has a B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross and an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University.