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Johnny Ryan

Johnny Ryan

Founder at TOOLKIT.ie, Head of Ecosystem at PageFair

Dr. Johnny Ryan is CEO of TOOLKIT.ie, a consultancy focussed on innovation and Design Thinking. He is also Head of Ecosystem at PageFair, working to sustain online publishing and respond to the growing phenomenon of adblocking. Previously he was Executive Director of The Innovation Academy, and Chief Innovation Officer of The Irish Times, where he established a multi-million euro Big Data programme, and introduced startups inside the 154 year old newspaper. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and was an associate on the emerging digital environment at the Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge from 2011-14. His second book "A History of the Internet and the Digital Future" is on the reading list at Harvard and Stanford.

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