E. Mark Ryan - Board of Directors

Mark Ryan is a co founder and EVP, Director of Business Development of Ranger Scientific LLC, a small arms ammunition manufacturer located in Montgomery, West Virginia. Ryan is also presently a partner with Aegis Defense Research and Aegis Defense International, focused on defense technologies research and development in both the U.S. military and consumer markets. Ryan has a diversified and extensive management background including twenty-five years of executive leadership experience in the arenas of banking, oil and gas, small business, capital raising and defense technology manufacturing. Ryan is an operative for Project Blue light, a counter terrorism and anti-human trafficking private organization working within the United States. He is also part of a national coalition collaborating with several organizations to combat child human trafficking. Ryan is a co-founder of the Heroes for Freedom and Liberty, a non-for-profit event honoring both military and civilian heroes, who have gone above the call of duty, sacrificing themselves for others. Ryan helped found Montgomery Preparatory Academy, a private non-for- profit school in West Virginia, grades 6 through 12 geared towards entrepreneurialism and specific excelled individual aptitude. Ryan is a Knight of Columbus, a Kentucky Colonel and received an honorary citizenship award from the Sons of the American Revolution. Ryan received is undergraduate degree at S.I.U.C BA in Japanese and Political Science