Rylan’s mission is to develop solutions supporting the economic regeneration of communities, a theme he explored deeply while studying at Stanford University. His professional journey began by working at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. There he focused on understanding the capital needs of social enterprise technology ventures and envisioning alternative economic models for financing co-operative development.
From finance, Rylan embarked on a journey as an entrepreneur co-founding a technology startup, GiveBack; consulting on business strategy with Fortune 500 clients; and rolling up his sleeves as a front-end web engineer at the co-operative that is CoLab Co-op today.
Rylan now enjoys collaborating with his peers to support mission-driven entrepreneurs, educators, activists, and organizers to co-create a brighter future one human interaction at a time. He is particularly focused on supporting the capitalization of the platform co-op movement.