Ryan Roberts

About Ryan Roberts

Starting a business always felt like it was in the cards for Ryan. Watching his grandmother start her company at the age of 50, paired with his passion for building, solving problems and side hustles fueled him since he was young. After graduation, he packed up and moved to New York City to pursue his career at esteemed corporations including UBS, Thomson Reuters and Dun & Bradstreet. He was repeatedly promoted into new roles based on demonstrated success in executing strategy, optimizing revenue, and leading organizations through critical transitions. He has proven success in sales, account management, business development, and strategic planning. Today, he is the co-founder and CEO at Bustld.com, a wedding technology startup based in Charlotte, NC. His big picture vision, contagious energy and passion for solving any problem has enabled him to grow the company from pre-launch sales through a pandemic, and beyond. His insight enabled Bustld to pivot and launch LoveStream.io 6 weeks after COVID restrictions shut down weddings worldwide, and bring the company out on the other side with an even better vision for its future. In his free time, he loves watching Alabama football, drinking Italian wine and being with his family. Startup founders and leaders he most admires: Nick Saban, Steve Jobs, Gary Vaynerchuk, Barbara CorcoranBustld: Bustld was developed to be an all-encompassing digital wedding platform that fills in the gaps that currently exist in the industry.The platform utilizes a matching algorithm to match couples to wedding vendors, based on fit, not who pays the most — like a dating app for finding your perfect wedding vendors! In his role as CEO, he oversees:Company growth through increasing monthly sales & strategic partnershipsVision for company growthTeam onboarding

Experience

1. Founder CEO

   Bustld

   Oct 2017 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Bustld is an online wedding resource with a boutique feel and marketing approach. It was built by vendors for vendors to fill the gap that currently exists in other online resources, while bringing truth and transparency to the wedding industry. In everything we do, Bustld strives to be authentic, simple and empathetic for both vendors and couples. We focus on sharing our vendor’s stories everywhere the couples are – from Instagram to podcasts – in a hyperlocal way. LoveStream is the wedding live stream market leader pairing broadcast quality software with the human element to create reliable, multi-camera broadcasts, including-Remote virtual production -On-site event coordinators -Remote multi-camera switching -High-quality video/audio I oversee all sales, strategy & growth efforts and run tech. Highlights include:Growth of company from 0 vendors to more than 250 paying vendorsSold over 850 live stream events in 2 yearsOn-boarding of team.Continued growth of company month over month.

Education

• The University of Alabama

  Finance, Investment Management

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Sales Process
• Salesforce.com
• Capital Markets
• Solution Selling
• B2b
• Relationship Management
• Sales Management
• New Business Development
• Strategy
• Securities
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Fixed Income
• Sales
• Business Development
• Strategic Partnerships
• Bloomberg
• Banking
• Social Media
• Risk Management
• Saas
• Investments
• Aml
• Account Management
• Financial Markets
• Trading
• Financial Services
• Crm
• Trading Systems
• Sales Operations
• Business Analysis
• Equities
• Financial Risk
• Portfolio Management