Mike Ryan
Registered Rep Ambassador at MGR Capital
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMike Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, CEO advisor and Registered Rep Ambassador with 30+ years of cross-sector experience spanning healthcare, biotech, fintech, media and technology. He leverages a global network of 63,000+ LinkedIn connections to place private and growth-stage securities with family offices, sovereign wealth funds and venture mandates, and has advised 16 unicorns with a combined market cap of $203B. As Executive Chairman of Executive Impact Group and Managing Partner of MGR Capital, he combines boardroom experience from 85+ boards on five continents with hands-on fundraising and go-to-market execution. His background uniquely blends operational healthcare leadership (former hospital CEO roles and MHSA training) with technical curiosity—he’s contributed firmware and BLE security work to notable open-source projects like Ubertooth and a BLE encryption cracking tool. Known for quietly vetting and scaling companies before capital is raised, he mentors founders on strategy, leadership and human capital during transformational growth. Based in San Francisco, he’s equally at home negotiating complex finance deals and diving into low-level security engineering.
16 years of coding experience
42 years of employment as a software developer
Communications, Communications at University of California, BerkeleyLecturer/Advisor, Entrepreneur Studies, Lecturer/Advisor, Entrepreneur Studies at Copenhagen Business SchoolLecturer, Lecturer at University of San FranciscoDiploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, Diploma, College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program at St. John's College High SchoolMHSA, The School of Business, Business Administration specialized in Healthcare Management, MHSA, The School of Business, Business Administration specialized in Healthcare Management at The George Washington University School of BusinessJudge, Startups, entrepenuers, Judge, Startups, entrepenuers at Draper UniversityAmerican Government and Politics (United States), American Government and Politics (United States) at Georgetown UniversityBachelor of Arts, Communications, Bachelor of Arts, Communications at Regis UniversityDiploma, Graphic Design, Diploma, Graphic Design at St. Elizabeth Elementary SchoolLecturer, Business, Lecturer, Business at University of GothenburgComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (23)
firmware10
it-security10
bluetooth-le10
usb10
c-programming10
c1110
security10
c1710
btle10
sys10
aes-encryption10
embedded10
bluetooth-low-energy10
pcap9
microcontroller9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mikeryan/crackle
Feb 2013 - Dec 2020
Crack and decrypt BLE encryption
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:83 commits, 13 PRs, 41 pushes in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the security and functionality of a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) encryption cracking tool. They implemented core crypto functions including AES encryption, decryption, and CCM authentication, using these to crack and dump packets. The user expanded the program to support multiple connection analysis and LTK decryption, and also added features to handle different packet formats. They added testing, and implemented functionality to reverse the key cracking strategy.
cryptographyblecrackdecryptpadding
greatscottgadgets/ubertooth
Aug 2012 - Dec 2020
Software, firmware, and hardware designs for Ubertooth
Role in this project:Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:3 releases, 223 commits, 12 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the firmware development for the Ubertooth project, focusing on enhancements to its Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) sniffing capabilities. Their work included implementing features like promiscuous mode for capturing active connections and connection following, along with code for channel mapping, and improvements to the packet processing and filtering logic. The user's contributions involved managing and updating the USB API, as well as extending and refactoring code in C for the microcontroller.
firmwarebluetoothdesignshardware-designshardware
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