The Jackie Jones Challenge:  Ryan P. Allis

posted by Jackie Jones on Dec 3, 2007 | Comments (3) | Permalink | Trackback URL

Ryan P. Allis, 22, is the Chief Executive Officer of iContact the industry’s leading email marketing, RSS feed and blogging software, the Chairman of Virante, Inc, a web marketing consulting firm that assists companies build sales on the web, and the author of the book Zero to One Million.

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur and an international speaker on the topics of entrepreneurship, marketing, and innovation. Today, Ryan spends most of his time on his latest venture, iContact. As CEO he’s managed the company from its start in July 2003 to its current size with 70 employees, more than 16,000 customers, and $7 million in annual sales.

At the age of 18, Ryan wrote and published a book entitled, Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to $1 Million in Sales (McGraw-Hill). Today at the age of 22, he has been a keynote speaker and panel participant at conferences from Chicago to London. As a team leader with the Lead America Entrepreneurship Conference, Ryan has traveled the United States helping teach entrepreneurship to high school students. Ryan has been featured on ABC News and in Fortune Small Business, Investors’ Business Daily, the Daily Times of India, Entrepreneur Magazine, SuccessCoach Magazine, CosmoGirl, and Young Money Magazine, and in 2005 was named by BusinessWeek as one of the “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25.”

Ryan’s long-term goals include being a U.S. Senator and starting a foundation that works to reduce poverty and improve healthcare and education in developing nations. Ryan is presently on leave from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is a senior economics major and a Blanchard Scholar.

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