| |  | | Ryan Martens | | Founder and CTO, Rally Software Development | | Ryan Martens is the founder and CTO of Rally Software Development, which provides the software-driven enterprise with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to succeed with Agile development practices.
Before founding Rally Software Development - his fourth software start-up - Ryan directed the corporate adoption of Internet technologies within Qwest Communications, and then moved on to co-found Avitek, a Boulder-based custom software development firm where he served as Vice President of Marketing & Business Development. Ryan's successful efforts at Avitek culminated in an acquisition by BEA Systems in 1999. At BEA, Ryan served as Director of Product Management for the eCommerce applications division and he was instrumental in growing that division to more than $50 million in revenue within its first twelve months.
Most recently, Ryan was named as a semi-finalist for the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award.
Ryan received his Masters in Business Administration and his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ryan is an alumnus of the Colorado Chapter of Young Entrepreneur's Organization (YEO). Ryan is also involved in a variety of community organizations most notably as a board member for the Colorado Conservation Trust. |
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