Ryan Sullivan:
Co-Founder & CSO, Space Kinetic
About Ryan Sullivan:
Ryan Sullivan is co-founder and CEO of Space Kinetic Corp. At Space Kinetic, Ryan has shaped Space Kinetic’s strategic positioning across the space superiority and missile defense mission areas, raised >$12m in venture capital funding, and built a strong team of technical and business leaders who know how to deliver game-changing capability to the US Government.
Prior to founding Space Kinetic, he served in the US Peace Corps as an entrepreneurship and business expert, founded and ran the social impact venture Village to Village, and worked closely with US government agencies including USAID & Millennium Challenge Corporation across the Western Balkans.
During his Peace Corps service, Ryan founded business that brought dozens of jobs to northern Albania, served as President of the Peace Corps Albania Executive Council, and led a national disaster relief project after the 2019 earthquake in collaboration with US State Department that reached every school across the country.
As the founder of Village to Village, he worked with remote communities across Southeast Asia and the Western Balkans to found schools, build houses, and develop vocational training programs. With Millennium Challenge, he worked in Kosovo on economic development programs and published multiple books and speeches with US and Kosovo political leaders.
Ryan holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he graduated with honors. He holds a BS in Public Policy from Vanderbilt University, where he graduated with honors and was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship.
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