Ryan Gembala

Fondateur chez Pathbreaker Ventures LLC

Profil

Prior to starting Pathbreaker, Ryan was a deal lead on the corporate development team at Facebook where he worked with product and engineering leadership to landscape technology ecosystems and execute acquisitions.
Acquisitions worked on include Oculus, PrivateCore, LiveRail, Teehan Lax, and NimbleVR.
At Facebook he focused on emerging technologies across AI/ML, Computer Vision, Virtual Reality, Security, and Product Design.
Before Facebook, Ryan was an investor and operator at Azure Capital, an early stage venture firm with $750M+ under management where he focused on consumer and enterprise problems.
Ryan operated, worked with, and/or invested in companies such as TripIt (acquired by Concur for $120M), Cooking.com (acquired by Target), Get Satisfaction (acquired by Sprinklr), Telly as VP of Business Development & Partnerships, and Convercent as VP of Business Development & Partnerships.
Ryan began his career as a social entrepreneur — bootstrapping and co-founding H.E.R.O.
for Children, a non-profit focused on emotional health and quality of life support for children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.Ryan earned his M.B.A.
from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he began seed investing with Hyde Park Angels and won the Global Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC).
He graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors from the University of Georgia with a B.B.A.
from the Terry College of Business.
He and his wife live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their three children.

Postes actifs de Ryan Gembala

Sociétés	Poste	Début
Pathbreaker Ventures LLC	Fondateur	01/06/2015
Simbe Robotics, Inc.	Directeur/Membre du Conseil	01/07/2019

Anciens postes connus de Ryan Gembala

Sociétés	Poste	Fin
Convercent, Inc.	Private Equity Investor	30/11/2013
Telly, Inc.	Private Equity Investor	31/07/2013
Helping Elderly Residents Out	Fondateur	01/09/2008
Cooking.com, Inc.	Private Equity Investor	-
Azure Capital Partners, Inc.	Analyste en capital-investissement	-

Formation de Ryan Gembala

University of Georgia	Undergraduate Degree
The University of Chicago	Masters Business Admin