Ryan Lee
Founder And CEO at Trident Advisors
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Lee is a founder and CEO with 25+ years of experience building and scaling commerce, fintech, and logistics products, currently focused on AI-driven digital transformation through Trident Advisors. He founded Nautical Commerce, architecting a cloud-native marketplace and B2B commerce platform that wove fintech and logistics into a differentiated product, raised seed and Series A funding, and hit $1M ARR within 100 days of GTM. Ryan blends strategy, product, and execution—having led payment and fraud programs at Apple Pay and commercialized payments at Turvo—while hiring and scaling cross-functional teams across R&D, sales, and marketing. Known for turning customer conversations into product roadmaps (he interviewed 30+ Fortune 500s before founding Nautical), he pairs an operator’s rigor with a vision for integrated commerce ecosystems. Based in Greater Seattle, he holds an MBA and executive education from MIT Sloan, and often speaks on marketplace technology and go-to-market velocity.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Information Systems, BS Management Information Systems at Park UniversityMBA Finance Management and Marketing, MBA Finance Management and Marketing at University of Florida - Warrington College of BusinessCertification Project Management & Problem Solving and Decision Making, Certification Project Management & Problem Solving and Decision Making at Kepner-TregoeExecutive Education Managing and Developing a Technology Product Strategy, Executive Education Managing and Developing a Technology Product Strategy at MIT Sloan School of Management
Github Skills (6)
visualizer5
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Github contributions (5)
orange-quicksand/Aberrant-Marble
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 day
pythontangerine
ryanjlee/orange-quicksand
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:34 pushes in 11 days
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