Ryan Stewart is the Founder of WEBRIS – a digital marketing agency specializing in search engine optimization services. Previously, he was a digital marketing consultant helping clients like Accenture, Target and Best Buy grow online revenues. Ryan’s work is featured by Inc, SEJ, Moz, Ahrefs, CMI and many more. For over 10 years, Ryan has helped hundreds of companies utilize the internet to funnel more customers and sales. He specializes in omni-channel digital marketing strategy and building traffic through organic channels (Google, social and content) and offers services through WEBRIS and direct consulting.
Secret Team
Secret Academy Episode – Josh Kent
Josh Kent is the CEO and founder of SunFrog.com. He is a self-taught computer programmer that began building websites for others right out of high school. With a good amount of experience and knowledge under his belt, in 2013 Josh launched SunFrog.com. Josh had a simple strategy to stand out in an already saturated clothing eCommerce industry, even though he had no overhead capital to start with. Josh had no idea that SunFrog would explode overnight. SunFrog went from $1M in sales for 2014, to a projected $150M for 2017.
Secret Academy Episode – Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee co-founded Rotten Tomatoes, a leading entertainment website directory focused on films and movies, in 1998, and sold it in 2004 to IGN for $10M. Rotten Tomatoes is one of the top 500 most trafficked sites in the world. Patrick is also the co-founder and former CEO of Design Reactor, an internet marketing firm focused on the entertainment industry. Patrick’s current focus is Hobo Labs, which he co-founded with Lyle Fong, and is a stealth mobile gaming company which raised over $4M from investors. Patrick is currently an advisor for countless technology and gaming startups. He was also named #55 on Bizzabo’s list of “The 100 Most Wanted Speakers at Tech Conferences”.
Secret Academy Episode – Jason Mayden
Jason Mayden is the co-founder and CEO of Super Heroic, a business focused on creating quality play performance product, technology and services for elementary school-aged children and their families. Prior to this, he was the senior lead designer of the Air Jordan – the highest grossing Nike shoe in history. During his 13+ year career at Nike, Mayden led and contributed to the creation of innovative sport performance products for athletes and cultural icons such as Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook, Derek Jeter, and Michael Jordan. Currently, Jason is an advisor and media designer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University.
Secret to Success – Jason Arasheben
Before he was designing custom jewelry for celebrities, professional athletes and some of the world’s most elite list clientele, Jason Arasheben was broke and sinking in credit card debt as a sophomore at UCLA Law School. Faced with an immediate need to make money fast, he took a chance and spent his last $400 on wholesale silver trinkets from the LA Design District and began to sell them to girls around campus. By the time he was a senior, Jason’s trinket business had spread to six other college campuses and he was already making more money than most Harvard Law School grads and living in LA gave him access to very high net-worth people. A true entrepreneur at heart, he decided to forgo a career in law and take a life-changing risk to jump full force into the jewelry design business.
Secret Academy Episode – Erik Voorhees
Erik Voorhees is an American/Panamanian startup founder. He is a co-founder and former CEO of the bitcoin company Coinapult, a company that transfers bitcoin via email and SMS. Erik is one of the pioneers of the cryptocurrency movement, founding one of the first bitcoin/altcoin exchange companies – Shapeshift.io. He is also the founder of the controversial betting site, Satoshi Dice, which was sold to an anonymous investor in 2013 for 126,315 bitcoins – valued at $11.5M ($997,762,816.58 as of Nov. 17th). This was considered to be the first big bitcoin acquisition. Erik has appeared on highly acclaimed documentaries such as Banking On Bitcoin and The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.
Secret Academy Episode – Jessica Butcher
Jessica Butcher is the co-founder and director of Blippar – a leading technology company specializing in augmented reality, artificial intelligence and computer vision. Jessica is a technology entrepreneur with vast experience in bringing forth successful businesses over the last 15 years. Jessica is also an angel investor and was named as one of the Inspiring 50 – most inspiring women in European technology in 2016, BBC’s international list of Top 100 Women of 2014, and Fortune Magazine’s Global Top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs of 2012.