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John Ryan

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Founder & CEO, ORM Technologies LLC

ORM is a prescriptive revenue platform for B2B SaaS sales and marketing leaders

Dallas, TX, USA ORM Technologies LLC LinkedIn

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John Ryan is the Founder and CEO of ORM Technologies, a Dallas company that builds prescriptive revenue analytics for B2B SaaS sales and marketing leaders. He was CEO and President of the security company Entrust from 1996 to 2001, and he founded ORM in 2011. John's team builds custom forecast models on a company's CRM data to spot pipeline risks early and tell sales teams what to do next.

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AI-Assisted CodingMachine LearningData ScienceAnalytics & BIMarketingFinance & FP&A

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Zix Corporation · Chairman, CEO & President

Private placement (secured convertible notes + warrants) · Nov 2004

$20M

Zix Corporation · Chairman, CEO & President

Private placement (common stock + warrants) · Jun 2003

$5.75M

Zix Corporation · Chairman, CEO & President

Private placement (convertible notes + Series A/B convertible preferred) · Sep 2002

$16M

Entrust · CEO & President

Private placement (Series B common stock) · Dec 1996

$26M

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Entrust Technologies

IPO · 1998 · Founding President & CEO

$762M

Entrust Technologies went public on Nasdaq in August 1998 at $16 a share, valuing the company at about $762M (47.6M shares outstanding after the offering), while John Ryan was its founding President & CEO. The IPO itself raised $86.4M for the company.

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