Ryan A. Kuhn

Ryan has run, invested in, and sold companies. For more than 30 years he has worked both sides of mid-market technology M&A, advising owners on transaction preparation, market positioning, buyer selection and terms negotiation, and acquiring for corporate and private equity buyers.

• Founder and Managing Director, Kuhn Capital. M&A advisor to mid-market technology companies.
• Managing Director, Westbury Group, a mid-market investment bank, where he headed the technology, media and telecom practice.
• CEO, Lilly Pulitzer, the clothing brand now owned by NYSE-listed Oxford Industries.
• CEO, Reid Systems, an HR data firm now owned by General Dynamics.
• Led software and data investments for Chicago private equity firm GTCR.
• Led M&A at publisher McGraw-Hill.
• Former board member, First Bank & Trust Company of Illinois.
• MBA, Harvard Business School. BA in English and Psychology, Trinity College, Hartford.