Mr. Ryan is a Managing Director of Gleacher & Company. Mr. Ryan joined Gleacher Partners in 2002. Prior to joining Gleacher, he had spent over six years at Goldman Sachs, working in the Financial Institutions Group in London and New York and later in the Advisory Group in London. Mr. Ryan has worked on mergers and acquisitions and financings with clients such as General Dynamics, Royal Bank of Scotland, Mellon Group, AIG, Natwest, Compaq, Cable & Wireless and Axa. Mr. Ryan received a degree in law from Trinity College, Dublin.