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Ryan Holmes

  • Founder and CEO, Hootsuite and Contributor, Freelance
As seen in: LinkedIn, Facebook, Medium, Forbes, TIME, CNBC, Hubspot Blog, PBS, Entrepreneur, Fast Company and
Canadian entrepreneur & angel investor. Lover of dogs, owls and the outdoors. founder of @hootsuite @loiaccelerator and @loiventure.
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Ryan Holmes’s Biography

Ryan Holmes founded Hootsuite in 2008, growing the company from a lean startup to a global leader in social media with over 11 million users, including 744 of the Fortune 1000 companies.

Thought leader, dog lover and serial entrepreneur, Ryan has redefined the face of social media—bringing Twitter, Facebook and other social networks out of the dorm room and into the boardroom. A college drop-out, he started a paintball company and pizza restaurant before founding Invoke Media, the company that developed Hootsuite.

Today, Ryan is an authority in technology and business. He writes regularly for publications like Fast Company, Inc, Fortune, and has a column in the Wall Street Journal. He's also one of LinkedIn's top 25 most followed Influencers and presents at the world’s top tech conferences.

An angel investor and advisor outside of Hootsuite, Ryan supports programs that empower the greater startup community and future generations of entrepreneurs, including his own non-profit initiative, The Next Big Thing.

Hootsuite is a social relationship platform that empowers users to execute social media strategies across their organizations. Our vision is to revolutionize communications; our mission is to empower our customers to transform messages into meaningful relationships.

You can learn more about how we're doing this on our blog: blog.hootsuite.com and careers page: hootsuite.com/about/careers