RYAN BORN

I grew up in Nashville and did my undergrad (BBA - art history, marketing, & accounting) at Emory in Atlanta and grad school (MAS - accounting) at U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I sat for and passed the CPA exam and worked as an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2003, I moved to NYC and became VP Finance / Controller for WireImage (acquired by Getty Images for $208M in 2007) and angel invested in 2 startups - NewCondosOnline and InternetMarketingInc. From 2005 to 2007, I moonlighted on nights and weekends as professional photographer covering celebrity and sporting events. My images have appeared in major print publications from Rolling Stone to People Magazine. In 2008, I relocated to LA, put down the camera, married to the loveliest woman in the world, and founded AudioMicro, Inc, which was named as the USA's #5 fastest growing media company via the 2015 Inc 500 and was acquired by Zealot Networks in 2014-15 for $25 Million. After a brief hiatus building new construction homes..