Ryan Allis

Current

• Executive Director at The Humanity Campaign, Inc.
• CEO & Co-Founder at iContact
• Chairman at Virante, Inc.

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Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Manatee High School

Recommended

4 people have recommended Ryan

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Ryan Allis’s Summary

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of iContact, a 90 person SaaS company in Durham, North Carolina providing email marketing software to small and mid-sized companies. iContact allows over 22,000 customers to easily create, send, and track email newsletters, surveys, autoresponders, and RSS feeds in one central web application.

Chairman & Founder of Virante, Inc. - Web marketing consulting firm focusing on search engine optimization, viral media, web site design, and web app development.

Author of Zero to One Million: How to Build a Company to $1 Million in Sales (McGraw-Hill)

Blog: www.ryanallis.com/blog/
Bio: www.ryanallis.com
iContact: www.icontact.com
Virante: www.virante.com
Humanity Campaign: www.humanitycampaign.org

Ryan Allis’s Specialties:

building a growing technology firm
entrepreneurship
management
raising funding
web marketing
search engine optimization
ad spend and CPC management
building online sales

Ryan Allis’s Experience

• Executive Director

  The Humanity Campaign, Inc.

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  October 2005 — Present (3 years 1 month)

  The mission of The Humanity Campaign, Inc. is to reduce poverty and hunger in North Carolina, the United States, and in developing countries by increasing access to education, healthcare, technology, and entrepreneurial opportunity. Learn more at http://www.humanitycampaign.org.

• CEO & Co-Founder

  iContact

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2003 — Present (5 years 4 months)

  Co-founder and CEO of iContact, the leading email marketing and blogging software company with over 17,000 clients and 80 employees! We make it really easy for businesses to communicate online.

• Chairman

  Virante, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2002 — Present (6 years 1 month)

  An interactive marketing agency that assists high potential start-ups and established Fortune 1000 organizations launch brands and build sales on the web. Its focus is in designing and launching integrated search marketing, CPC, email, blogging, and online advertising campaigns as a catalyst to the web positioning efforts of high potential new brands or companies.

Ryan Allis’s Education

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  B.A., Economics, 2002 — 2006

• Manatee High School

  High School, 1998 — 2002

Additional Information

Ryan Allis’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Ryan Allis’s Interests:

entrepreneurship, operations management, web marketing, search engine optimization, email marketing, development economics, poverty in developing nations, investing, psychology

Ryan Allis’s Groups:

Entrepreneurs' Organization Raleigh-Durham, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce, Council for Entrepreneurial Development, Carolina Entrepreneurship Club, Emerging Tar Heel Leaders, Nourish International, Advocates for Grassroots Development in Uganda

•    Overachievers Club
•    Email Marketer's Club
•    Leadership Triangle Alumni
•    iContact Users Group

Ryan Allis’s Honors:

Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25, BusinessWeek (2005)
Top 40 Under 40, Triangle Business Journal (2006)
Cover of Fortune Small Business Magazine (Feb 2007)
Cover of Success Magazine (May 2007)

Ryan Allis’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch