Ryan Malone

As vice president of marketing for StudioPMG, Ryan provides leadership on all marketing, social media and PR initiatives and spearheads the company’s offering roadmap.  A veteran marketers with more than 15 years experience, Ryan founded and served as president of SmartBug Media, an inbound marketing firm focused on technology and health care companies. SmartBug was named by Hubspot in the top 1% of inbound marketers with customers that included Acxiom Corporation, HireRight, Brookdale Senior Living, Valpak, Ring Revenue and Brookdale Senior Living.

Prior to SmartBug, Ryan was the vice president of marketing and business development for Apani Networks, where he led global marketing and partnering initiative. Prior to Apani, Ryan served as the vice president of marketing and channel development at Zetera where he was instrumental in the company's successful partnership arrangements with Netgear and the high profile launch of Storage Central. Prior to Zetera, Ryan served in a senior capacity for Certance, then a Seagate Technology company, where he played a key role in rebuilding the company’s product portfolio that contributed to the sale of Certance to Quantum. Additionally, Ryan has held various marketing leadership roles within Seagate's Removable Storage Solutions division. Prior to Seagate, Malone served as a senior consultant at Deloitte & Touche LLP.  

Ryan has written for leading publications such as Social Media Examiner, TechWeb/United Business Media, Information Week and InfoStor. Ryan has a BA in Political Science from the University of Maryland (go Terps!) and an MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.