Ryan Stoner

Ryan Stoner is a personal branding professional who is recognized as a leading expert in personal branding and marketing. He's passionate about storytelling for brands. Ryan is also a high-energy leader who has extensive experience helping launch startups throughout the country.

Executive Head of Strategy phenomenon
Strategy Director Publicis Lead the strategic direction for everything T-Mobile.
Brand Strategy Consultant Project Consulting Provided consulting services for agencies, brands and startups as a blended strategy, storytelling & business development lead role. Clients included pre-beta startups (Music Impacts and Jogg), and B-Reel, an integrated production company leading projects for Google, Facebook and Pinterest.
Head of Growth Switchcam Lead all things related to growth - business development, strategic partnerships, customer acquisition, and marketing that focused on driving growth for Switchcam.
CEO & Founder MoPix As the founder and CEO of MoPix I took the company from concept through launch, scaled to 40,000+ registered users, 4,500+ registered filmmakers and 2,300+ titles for sale. I was responsible for product, strategy, execution, hiring, business development, sales, finance, and leading the fundraising of our seed round from 500 Startups (Batch 3), PIE (Batch 1)/Wieden & Kennedy, and Upstart Labs.
Advisor 100 Urban Entrepreneurs Served as an advisor and founding team member for 100 Urban Entrepreneurs, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation dedicated to helping provide a meaningful, long-term economic boost to urban communities throughout the United States. Over a two year period I helped to create and manage the eight-week virtual startup incubator program, overseeing the startup-financing grants and mentorship of over 40 entrepreneurs.
Founder Hooray As founder of Hooray, a strategic and creative marketing solutions agency specializing in mobile product development, I led a lean product team that built and launched three top ten mobile apps, including the Dark Prophecy Interactive iPad app with CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, which was featured by Apple as a top grossing & paid app in the book category. I was responsible for managed clients during project execution, defining project requirements, managing the QA and release roadmap, defining product positioning, and working with client’s marketing and PR teams on the development of launch activities.
Director of Strategy Omelet • Established the brand strategy department at Omelet and successfully grew the department.
• As the Head of Strategy I orchestrated Omelet’s strategic planning process and directed development of strategic proposals for the agency, providing strategic recommendations to existing or prospective clients to define clear market positioning, customer/audience target identification, brand messaging and forward thinking strategic vision. Clients include ABC, Academy Awards, Activision, Budweiser, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Disney, EA Easton, Fox Mobile, G4, Genius Products, Interscope, Microsoft, NBC, TBS, TNT, Toyota, USA Networks and Warner Brothers.
• Played a key role in the executive leadership of the company by working with founders to identify potential new business opportunities and develop strategic plans and action steps to secure such business, resulting in a sales growth from 1 million to over 10 million in two years, including nearly $1mm in strategy revenue alone.
Account Manager Publicis Led international brand strategy development for HP’s Technology Service Group & Channel Partner advertising.

• Guided brand strategy and creative conceptualization for enterprise and entry-level servers and storage, including discovering and interpreting insights from research, developing and presenting all strategic positioning, and working collaboratively with creative teams to spark, build and express creative ideas
Principal Head of Strategy Dendro Helping ambitious leaders at https://www.dendro.co/ launch their brands and find growth opportunities.

Bachelor's Degree Indiana University