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Ryan Buckley

Graduate student at MIT Sloan and the Harvard Kennedy School, founder of Scripped.com

Headline: Entrepreneur
Work status: Full-Time Student
Website: http://Scripped.com
Industries: Entertainment, Internet, Media
Skills: Business, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Spanish
Location: Cambridge, MA
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Giving back, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Recruiting for my startup
Tags: entertainment, harvard, media, mit, screenplays, screenwriting, variety
Schools: Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California System - Berkeley

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Scripped Inc, Los Angeles, CA
Position: Co-founder & CFO
Time period: January 2006 - Present
Description: • Started and ran an online media distribution system from idea to incorporated firm with advisors and legal representation
• Ran a Series A round for $250,000 including creation of investor pitch materials, stock purchase agreements, term sheets, and built relationships with angels and VCs
• Started and maintained the business accounting system through the first full fiscal year

Employer: State of California Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Sacramento, CA
Position: Policy Intern & Contractor
Time period: June 2007 - August 2008
Description: • Designed a sustainability platform to be used as a policy goal and a campaign strategy
• Developed municipal sustainability strategy for the Lieutenant Governor to implement during his tenure as Chair of the Commission for Economic Development
• Collaborated with and introduced the Lieutenant Governor to leaders in the field of environmental sustainability throughout the state of California

Employer: Navigant Consulting, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Position: Consultant, Data & Statistics Group
Time period: January 2004 - December 2006
Description: • Created and was offered a new position to work with the President of the company on nationwide programs to reduce entry-level employee turnover
• Ran complex spatial analyses in ArcView GIS to determine the economic effect of a chemical plant on a rural community in West Virginia
• Wrote a Windows Visual Basic application to batch process 40 million driving route distance calculations for a class action lawsuit
• Developed strong proficiency in MS Access, SQL, SAS, Visual Basic and the full MS Office suite

EDUCATION

University: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Time period: 2007 - 2009
Degree: MBA

University: Harvard University
Time period: 2006 - 2009
Degree: Candidate for MPP

University: University of California System - Berkeley
Time period: 2000 - 2004
Degree: B.A. Economics, B.S. Environmental Sciences

INFORMATION

Sports: • Completed marathons in New Orleans and Carlsbad, CA and enjoy all water sports, especially sailing and rowing
Hobbies: • Played guitar for 15 years and recorded several albums of original music
Clubs: • Director, Entertainment Media and Sports Club Los Angeles Trek

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  • Dan Steketee

    Entrepeneur with 13+ years of strategic and tactical consulting experience in the financial services, start-up and technology industries (BPM, Business Intelligence, KPI's,, Vendor Management, etc) .

  • Frederik Hermann

    International communications and marketing.