Vincent Ryan
TNC Global Board Member and Chairman, Schooner Capital, LLC
Boston, Massachusetts
Vin Ryan TNC Board Member © Tom Kates Photography
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Information Management, Communications, Alternative Energy Industries
BOARD TERM
June 2015 – October 2024Biography
Vin Ryan is Chairman of Schooner Capital, LLC, a venture capital firm founded in 1971. Mr. Ryan founded and built several companies in the last 40 years in the Information Management, Communications, and Alternative Energy industries, including Iron Mountain, which he built into a global provider of information management services. He served as director until 2014.
Mr. Ryan is President of the Schooner Foundation, which supports domestic and international organizations in the fields of human rights, social justice, higher education, and conservation.
Mr. Ryan has served on a number of philanthropic boards. He currently chairs the advisory board of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He also serves on the Dean's Council. He is Trustee Emeritus at the Marine Biological Lab and at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum. Mr. Ryan has previously served on the boards of the Furniture Society, the Landmine Survivor Network, and Physicians for Human Rights and is a graduate of Boston University.