Ryan Carson is the CEO & Founder of Treehouse, an online technology school with more than 80,000 enrolled students and 850,000 students taught in the past 8 years of operation. Treehouse takes people from zero experience to job-ready in as little as six months. He also founded Carsonified and DropSend.
He is driven not only to succeed, but to help everyone around him succeed as well. With his tremendously effective work/life balance, Ryan steers the company ship while making family time and his health a high priority. He is a leader and a champion of self-directed learning, inspiring others to take the helm of their own education. He is also an advocate and pioneer for equity, diversity and inclusion within the tech industry.
Ryan was born in 1977 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He graduated from Colorado State University in 2000 with a degree in Computer Science. He then moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a bit of adventure and fun and ended up meeting Gillian, getting married and having two wonderful boys. He and his family now live in Portland, Oregon.