Ryan is a co-founding Partner at ARTISAN with more than 20 years experience in virtually every facet of real estate investment. After starting his career in 2000 with HFF in Los Angeles Ryan joined PPM America as a loan originator and facilitated $500,000,000 in debt production for commercial real estate investments. Ryan then joined Levin Realty Advisors and helped build a $600,000,000 in multi-family real portfolio on behalf of LRA’s primary capital partner, Walton Street Capital. After LRA Ryan joined Oak Grove Capital (now JLL) where he arranged debt and equity financing for more than $250,000,000 in multi-family transactions.

Ryan started acquiring small cap multi-family assets in Chicago in 2009 on behalf of his own account and outside investors. After studying secondary and tertiary markets in the Midwest for several years he acquired nearly 1,000 apartment units in 2016-2017, which were used to seed ARTISAN in its official formation at the end of 2017

Ryan holds a BA from the University of Northern Iowa with a focus on Finance/Economics and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin with an emphasis on Real Estate/Entrepreneurship.