Ryan has a Master's of Crisis and Security Management, specialising in War & Peace Studies, from Leiden University and possesses a cumulative 6 years of board- and committee experience. Academically a student of security, defence, and military operations; he enjoys perusing books on warfare, intelligence reports on current conflicts, or articles from military journals. Currently he is working full-time as the co-founder and COO of HeatLift Dynamics: a tech startup developing an innovative pressure exchanger that achieves up to 30% eficiency gain for industrial heat pumps.