THOMAS RYAN
Senior VP, Mobile Development, EMI Music NA
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Thomas Ryan is Senior Vice President of Mobile Development for EMI Music North America, reporting to Ivan Gavin, Chief Operating Officer of EMI Music North America. Mr. Ryan is based in New York.

In his role, Mr. Ryan is responsible for developing new products for the mobile music market within North America. He works closely with EMI's North American business development team as well as its strategy group on mobile music opportunities, as well as other e-commerce initiatives. In addition, Mr. Ryan works with digital marketing teams at EMI's labels -- Capitol, Virgin, Angel, Blue Note, Manhattan, EMI CMG, EMI Latin, Narada, Capitol Nashville -- to develop and market new mobile products and services.

Mr. Ryan started his first digital music business nearly ten years ago and is recognized for his expertise in mobile music. He joined EMI from Virgin Mobile USA, a joint venture between Virgin Group and Sprint PCS. As a full time consultant for Virgin Mobile, he spearheaded the company's music strategy that has been responsible for it becoming the nation's largest seller of mobile music on a per subscriber basis and being recognized by Billboard as "the most aggressive US mobile music marketer." Prior to that, in 1996, Ryan founded CDuctive, a pioneering digital music company and one of the first sellers of downloadable music and custom CD compilations. In 1999, he sold CDuctive to Emusic, which was in turn acquired by Universal Music Group. Before CDuctive, Ryan lived in Europe for five years, where he served as commercial director for a leading international trading company.

A dual citizen of the U.S. and Ireland who speaks five languages, Mr. Ryan earned a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France