Ryan Pratt is competitive, creative, and caring. He is a hard-working, sales-oriented marketing professional with a proven record of growing small businesses and tech start-ups. Ryan is also a loving husband, father, over-indulgent technophile and Star Wars-loving cinephile.

Ryan has a unique background in content and digital marketing. He graduated from The Ohio State University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and education in Fine Arts (Architecture, Art History, Cinema). During his time at OSU, he was a Buckeye sports beat writer for The Lantern. Over the first 20 years of his career, he has been recognized in numerous publications and nominated for multiple industry awards including an American Business Awards finalist for Marketer of the Year.  Ryan also has two independently certified IQ test scores of 144 and 133.

Ryan recently joined the Prescribe FIT team, which was named a Columbus Business First Startup to Watch as well as a Top Tech Company in Columbus. As the Chief Marketing Officer, he has helped their full-service remote patient monitoring company grow 3x in the past year. Ryan was originally hired to build an educational patient outreach program which has proven to be 8x more effective than traditional in-clinic referrals. 

Ryan is experienced at balancing competing priorities of SMBs then quickly translating insights into actionable marketing strategies. Prior to Prescribe FIT, Ryan played a primary role in the merger between MBA Focus and CSO Research then lead the rebranding efforts as the Vice President of Marketing & Business Development at GradLeaders. Over his time there, he helped millions of students find their dream job by partnering with career centers and employers to better match students with right-fit jobs. Before that, Ryan gained invaluable entrepreneurial experience with the rapidly growing startup ListAfterList.com. As the VP of Marketing and minority owner, Ryan implemented business plans that drove website traffic from 0 to 3 million visitors annually and was a major reason for the 2008, 2009, and 2010 TechColumbus Innovation Awards nominations for “Outstanding Product.”

Shortly after graduating with a degree in journalism, Ryan worked as a national movie critic for the Examiner.com. His attention-span-sensitive reviews were read by thousands of cinephiles every week. Though no longer writing his "See-it, Rent-it, Skip-it" column, Ryan continues to express his opinions on films through his blog and social networks. And in 2012, as a member of Warner Bros. Blu-ray Elite Team, Ryan promoted and hosted movie viewing parties in an effort to promote adoption of the new high-definition format.

Over the past 20 years, Ryan has also consulted for multiple SMBs and early-stage startups on a wide variety of digital, direct, strategic, and brand marketing campaigns as well as new business development. His past and present projects include B2B and B2C advertising via SEO, PPC, SEM, SMA, email, direct mail, social media, strategic partnerships, research articles, thought leadership, press releases, website content, blogging and more. He is responsible for more than 250 different social media accounts with more than 100,000 fans and followers. Ryan has also developed and managed multiple websites and blogs -- each with 1st page organic search results and organic search traffic. Ryan's content, blogs, websites, eBooks, slide decks, and videos have been viewed by more than 10 million people around the world. ​
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Ryan now lives in a tech-enabled smart home in Jerome Village with his wife, Ally, and their two sons, Finn and Maxon. Their calendar revolves around family traditions --like Christmas in July, Summerween, Shark Week, May the 4th, Taco Tuesday and Movie Mondays —or hosting friends and neighbors for their annual PrattFall and St. Pratty’s Day parties.  When he isn’t entertaining guests, you’ll find Ryan paddling across Alum Creek, sampling fish-and-chips in Dublin’s Irish pubs, or lining up for the midnight release of the latest Star Wars film or Apple device. Family adventures and buddy trips also take Ryan from Yosemite and Yellowstone to Hawaii and Ireland and in attendance at the Kentucky Derby, Groundhog Day, or Buckeye sporting event. Wherever they go, Ryan is always intent on living life to the fullest, going all in on new experiences, and guided by the Pratt Family Values: be Present, show Respect, work hArd, think differenT, and stay posiTive. Ryan was born and raised in Canton, Ohio, and spent the first 35 summers of his life at his family cottages on the Finger Lakes in upstate New York. The Pratt family also spends multiple long weekends every Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter in Houghton Lake, Michigan.