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Ryan Smith
Membership Information:
Member Status:BronzeMember Since:2014
Contact Information:
Website:https://www.qualtrics.com/Employment:
Job Title:CEOCompany:Qualtrics
Location:Utah, United States
Biography:
Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with the goal of making sophisticated research simple. As CEO, he has grown the company from a basement startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. Qualtrics has more than 8,500 enterprise customers including over 75% of the Fortune 100, 1,800 colleges and universities worldwide, and 99 of the top 100 U.S. business schools. In late 2018 just before going public, Qualtrics was acquired by SAP for $8 billion in the largest transaction in Utah tech history. Ryan was named to Fortune’s 2016 40 Under 40, a list of the most powerful, influential, and successful young people in business, and was listed as one of Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35” in 2013. He is a frequent contributor to Fortune Magazine and has been feat
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Ryan Smith (businessman)
American businessman (born 1978)
S. Ryan Smith (born 28 June 1978) is an American billionaire businessman and chairman of Smith Entertainment Group. He is the executive chairman and co-founder of Qualtrics, an experience management company based in Provo, Utah.[1][2][3] Smith is also owner of the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Utah Hockey Club of the National Hockey League (NHL) in Salt Lake City, the co-owner of Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer (MLS) with sports investor David Blitzer.
Early life and education
Smith was born in Eugene, Oregon.[2][4] His father, Scott Smith, worked as a university professor and his mother, Nancy Smith Hill, holds a PhD in information systems.[5][6] While he was attending Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business, he founded Qualtrics with his father, and his brother, Jared. During his junior year he dropped out of school to spend more time working on Qualtrics, though he returned to school a
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Biography
Ryan Smith co-founded Qualtrics in 2002 with the goal of making sophisticated research simple. As CEO, he has grown the company from a basement startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world. Qualtrics has more than 5,000 enterprise customers including half of the Fortune 100, 1,300 colleges and universities worldwide and 96 of the top 100 business schools. In 2012, Qualtrics received a $70 million investment from Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital, the largest-ever joint investment by these two firms.
Ryan was named one of Forbes’ “America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35” for 2013, is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and has been featured in Fortune, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, TechCrunch and USA Today. He has also appeared on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.
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