Ryan is the General Counsel at atai Life Sciences. Ryan has spent the majority of the past decade serving on the executive teams of public and private biotechnology companies, for which he has been responsible for building and leading the legal, corporate development, and intellectual property functions. Over the course of his career, Ryan has held multiple strategic and operational roles within various biotechnology, not-for-profit and financial services companies.

Ryan is an attorney admitted to the bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; he holds a B.S. in biochemistry and a B.A. in Italian language from Trinity College (Hartford, CT), and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law (Cleveland, OH).