Tony Ryan profile

Tony Ryan

Business development consultant and major account director with experience gained with 3 of the “Big 5” consulting and accounting firms – KPMG, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young. A qualified accountant by background, he has directed a number of major, complex programmes and projects, including multi-site Practice Management System network installations for four large law firms. He has been Commercial Director of two public companies, and managed his own consulting business for six years.

He regularly presents at conferences, writes press articles on current issues and has been a major contributor to a number of books.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) – Economics

Career history

KPMG Consulting – Director, Strategy & Customer Management
Responsible for selling and delivering issues-driven business strategy through the use of enabling technologies, to allow clients to achieve their strategic business objectives, via realistic implementations. A number of assignments involved e-Procurement systems.

Deloitte – Director of e-Business
Appointed Director of e-Business and quickly grew his team to 14 consultants, who educated clients and the internal Deloitte market about the business issues involved in getting their organisations ready for e-Business. Within 12 months they had acquired over 20 new clients and ‘converted’ 10 existing clients to become ‘e-clients’.

Tristar Consultants – Managing Director
Created a company that selected and implemented office automation systems, finance and legal and accountancy Practice Management Systems. Contracts included multi-site network installations for four large firms of solicitors, and the complete rebuilding of all the back office systems for a leading computer graphics company.

K2 Systems PLC – Commercial Director
As Commercial Director he set up all the internal systems, whilst also acting as account manager to the major clients. He was instrumental in growing K2 in the office automation and financial systems market to £3m turnover, and a staff of 40 people, in less than two years.

Star Computer Group PLC – Commercial Director
Quickly promoted through a succession of roles, to become the main board Commercial Director. Star grew to over 350 staff and was the first IT company to obtain a full LSE listing from the USM.