Bio

Ryan brings extensive legal and deal-making expertise to the Ridge Road team. As a practicing attorney, Ryan worked on some of the largest M&A transactions in the United States, advising corporate clients on a range of complicated and variable matters. Ryan is also a passionate investor, and he has been investing in public markets since he was a teenager. He is very value-focused and, as a business leader, is keenly focused on mitigating risk while carefully and methodically deploying capital. Ryan joined Ridge Road from Sierra Global, a long-short hedge fund with a successful two-decade history. At Sierra Global, Ryan was responsible for his own long-short silo within the firm’s overall portfolio. Prior to Sierra Global, Ryan was a bankruptcy and mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. There, he assisted large corporations and private equity firms in executing a variety of public and private transactions and in navigating bankruptcy proceedings. He also previously co-founded the Awethu Project, a social enterprise that develops entrepreneurs primarily from the most disadvantaged communities in his native South Africa. The organization has been recognized internationally by the Echoing Green Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, and locally by the South African Government and Archbishop Tutu among others. Ryan received an AB from Harvard College, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a JD from Columbia Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Law Review.