Successful entrepreneur and pioneer, humanist and philanthropist. Investor and advisor to many interesting companies and charities.
My goal is to create a world in which corporations compete with each other to make the most positive social impact. I hope to achieve this through the Causecast Community Impact Platform, a software and service combination that helps corporations engage their most powerful brand ambassadors - their employees - in corporate philanthropy and workplace volunteerism.
Out of the top 100 economies in the world, 56 are corporations. The sustainability, CSR and philanthropy movements, combined with the desperate need for improved employee engagement was the impetus for Causecast.
Contact me if you want to learn how to engage your employees in donating, volunteering and disaster response.
Specialties: Deep technical background. Wide ranging experience. New business models for non-profits, new pro-social models for capitalists. Employee cause engagement, cause marketing, and corporate social responsibility.
CEO and Founder @ Causecast is the leading cause integration company, providing a modern employee cause engagement solution for companies of all sizes. This SaaS platform offers workforce matching donations, volunteering including dollars for doers, disaster response and custom campaigns which leverage social media and automation. From November 2007 to Present (8 years 1 month) Investor @ The mission of Principle Power is to analyze, select, finance, build, own, operate and manage a balanced and risk-adjusted portfolio of renewable energy power plants, assets and facilities. Principle unites top industry professionals, smart venture and institutional capital, leading engineering firms and best-of-breed technology to achieve this goal.
www.PowerByPrinciple.com From October 2007 to Present (8 years 2 months) Investor @ Signum Biosciences is dedicated to exploiting a cluster of new technologies central to cellular regulation and signaling. We are applying the tools of molecular biochemistry to design and identify compounds to prevent and treat diseases originating from a failure within the signaling system of human cells. These include Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, atherosclerosis and various skin conditions. We have mature science, broad intellectual property, and therapeutic candidates approaching commercialization. From August 2007 to Present (8 years 4 months) Investor @ Greener World Media is the world's first and only mainstream media company focused exclusively on sustainability and the competitive edge it brings to businesses. Our focus is on providing resources that help the rapidly growing market of green-minded professionals and institutions succeed and prosper. From August 2007 to Present (8 years 4 months) Investor @ From June 2007 to Present (8 years 6 months) Investor @ Cool Earth Solar is producing a system which will revolutionize the cleantech business through revolution in cost reduction of the cost per installed watt for 30 year life of the system. From June 2007 to Present (8 years 6 months) Investor @ Smart media play by Jason Calacanis. Invested alongside Sequoia Capital, Mark Cuban, Newscorp, CBS Corporation, Elon Musk, and Burda Media. From May 2007 to Present (8 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaInvestor @ Tesla Motors is revolutionizing transportation with a fast, beautiful electric sports car. Founded by Elon Musk From May 2007 to Present (8 years 7 months) Investor @ With an online PO Box, you'll manage your postal mail as easily as your email.
View scanned images of your sealed envelopes online, then choose to have your mail securely scanned into a PDF document, recycled, shredded or forwarded to you or someone else. From May 2007 to Present (8 years 7 months) Angel Investor @ Investing in companies in the Internet and CleanTech markets. From September 2006 to Present (9 years 3 months) Board Member @ Most organizations tackling social problems don’t have access to the marketing, design, technology, management or strategic planning resources they need to succeed. Without this talent, few are able to have their intended impact on critical issues like the environment, health and education.
Taproot is a nonprofit organization that makes skilled professional talent available to organizations working to improve society.
We engage the nation’s millions of business professionals in pro bono services both through our award-winning programs and by partnering with companies to develop their pro bono programs. One day, we envision all organizations with promising solutions will be equipped to successfully take on urgent social challenges. From January 2013 to January 2014 (1 year 1 month) Founder of Impact and Education Sections @ Started Impact with Arianna Huffington as a place "where the story doesn't end, but the opportunity to take action begins." From September 2009 to October 2010 (1 year 2 months) CEO @ Developer of games for multiple platforms. From May 2002 to June 2004 (2 years 2 months) CTO, Co-founder @ Created and developed the OPT-IN email marketing industry. Built a profitable company without venture capital, and within 5 years took it public. Company was sold shortly thereafter to SEAT Pagine Gialle in an all-cash deal, at which point I exited.
The traditional direct marketing industry resisted embracing opt-in, claiming it would hurt their industry. We countered by showing them that ethical email marketing was profitable, sustainable, and defensible. In my opinion, opt-in is the only ethical way to market, in any medium. If a marketing method cannot be sustained using only opt-in practices, I don't believe it should exist.
I developed the double opt-in method, for which I hold a patent.
http://www.netcreations.com/ From March 1995 to April 2001 (6 years 2 months)
Ryan Scott is skilled in: Corporate Social Responsibility, Triple Bottom Line, Cause Marketing, Entrepreneur, Non-profits, Social Networking, Start-ups, Social Media Marketing, Workplace Giving, Volunteer Management, Corporate Sustainability, Employee Engagement, Philanthropy, Socially Responsible Investing, Entrepreneurship
Websites:
http://www.causecast.com/,
http://Causecastfornonprofits.com,
http://causecast.com/