Ryan Bishara

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ABOUT RYAN BISHARA

Ryan Bishara is a front office executive with comprehensive expertise of working with teams to innovate, drive profit growth, build corporate strategies, and collaboratively implement change.Currently, he leads the Revenue and Strategy function for LAFC (Los Angeles Football Club) that includes the Corporate Partnerships, Ticket Sales and Service, and Business and Data Strategy departments by driving strategic planning, vision, process development, and growth initiatives for these verticals.His team was most recently recognized as the 2024 Top Ticket Sales (90%+ paid of capacity) and 2024 Top Corporate Partnerships Revenue, New Business Revenue and YoY Increase and 2023 MLS Corporate Partnerships Team of the Year. A recent Forbes 30-Under-30 award winner, Bishara spearheaded the creation of the Club’s Business and Data Strategy department, which has been recognized by Major League Soccer as the back-to-back (2018 and 2019) Business Analytics Team of the Year using data driven decision making to help optimize business processes across the organization.As a part of day-to-day responsibilities the department sets season, variable, and dynamic ticket pricing; creates all partnership proposals; measures and recaps the reach and exposure for all corporate partners; manages CRM for all revenue functions; distributes and analyzes all customer surveys; administers the organizational data warehouse; and associated reporting dashboards.Prior to that, in four years with the Detroit Pistons, Bishara had the fortune of innovating and improving a variety of sales, strategy, marketing, and finance disciplines through a vibrant ownership transition. Most recently as Manager of Business Strategy & Development, he added client management and sales skillsets to his responsibilities including fulfillment, activation and renewal negotiations of top sponsorship accounts.Ryan began his career as the Special Assistant to the President & CEO with a focus on project management, serving as the internal steward for collaboration and providing counsel on finance, strategy, capital improvement ventures for the ownership operating committee and internal departments.Before joining Pistons, he received his B.A. in Communications at UCLA in 3 years while holding 12 internships across 5 professional and collegiate sports.