Meet Our Founders

Ryan Deiss

Ryan Deiss is a serial entrepreneur, author, and investor, and according to Shark Tank star, Daymond John, “His companies practically own the internet.”

He is the Founder and CEO of The Scalable Company (Scalable.co), DigitalMarketer.com, and a Founding Partner at Scalable Equity, LLC, an equity accelerator that builds and acquires B2B media and software brands. 

Ryan is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conference in North America. He also quite literally wrote the book on modern marketing, Digital Marketing For Dummies (Wiley), which is now in its 2nd edition.

As a sought-after speaker, Ryan has shared the stage with top business leaders and celebrities like Sir Richard Branson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Sarah Blakely, Tim Ferris, Daymond John, and Dave Ramsey.

Most importantly, Ryan is a proud father of four, and husband to Emily, to whom he gives all the credit for everything he has ever done

Roland Frasier is an investor, mentor, and business strategist with over 1,000 acquisitions and exits completed for himself and his clients. 

His current portfolio companies include real estate, restaurants, business and home services, events, eLearning, e-commerce, franchise and SaaS businesses, and he has been a principle of 6 different Inc. fastest growing companies.

Roland serves on the Stanford University Advisory Board for Global Projects and their Family Office Steering Committee, and his work has been featured in Business Insider, Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, and Yahoo Finance.

Roland has also interviewed Sir Richard Branson, Sarah Blakely, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Martha Stewart, Magic Johnson  and other business celebrities on his award winning “Business Lunch” podcast.

Roland Frasier

Richard Lindner

Richard Lindner is the President and Co-Founder of DigitalMarketer, the industry leader in global digital marketing education. While running a global team of more than 50 professionals worldwide, Richard also is a sought-after executive leadership expert, working with some of the world’s most exciting brands like Uber, Harper Collins, Entreleadership, Maropost, and Ethiad Airlines to name a few.

Richard is an enthusiastic and engaging public speaker who prides himself on his ability to unpack the complexities of building and scaling the modern business. He brings 10 years of senior-level leadership education to the forefront of a marketplace desperate for consummate and compassionate leaders.

In a business climate that is in constant flux Richard focuses on the one thing that doesn’t change, building teams and leadership focused on helping organizations achieve their goals and scale their brand.

Bringing organizational success back to the roots of leadership is one of the many ways Richard has pioneered a direct impact on organizational change across numerous verticals.

Richard hails from the great state of Tennessee and on most Saturdays in the fall you can find him and his family draped from head to toe in their Volunteer orange

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