Ryan Holmes Email Address

Chief Executive Officer

Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008.

A serial entrepreneur, Ryan Holmes started his first business in high school, ultimately opening a string of ventures - from a pizza restaurant to a digital media agency - before starting Hootsuite in 2008. As founder and CEO, he has helped grow Hootsuite into the world’s most widely used social relationship platform, with 10-million-plus users, including 800 of the Fortune 1000 companies. A supporter of socially conscious ventures, Ryan is proud to have steered Hootsuite to B-Corp status, a distinction awarded to leading for-profit companies with a social and environmental mission. Through his foundation, The Next Big Thing, he also offers fellowships and mentoring to tomorrow’s brightest entrepreneurs. Ryan is an active investor and advisor, whose Maple Syrup Mafia syndicate is dedicated to accelerating Canadian startups. A future enthusiast (with a love of VR) and the inventor of a low-cost standing desk, he’s a hacker at heart - always looking for easier, better and more efficient ways to solve problems.Recognized as an authority on digital transformation, entrepreneurship and social media, Ryan shares his insights in Fortune, Fast Company and the Wall Street Journal and ranks as one of the top 20 global Influencers on LinkedIn and a leading CEO influencer on Facebook and Twitter.