Companies all succeed because of the environment and community they are born in. Giving back to the community to help make it more vibrant is important to me.
Ryan Morris is an entrepreneur and investor and has served as Executive Chairman of Software Motor Company (SMC) since October 2017. Ryan founded Meson Capital Partners LLC, a multi-family office in Feb 2009 and has served as Chairman of 3 publicly traded companies including most recently Sevcon, Inc. which was a world leader in power electronics for high performance electric vehicles. Sevcon was sold to BorgWarner in September 2017.
In July 2008, after finishing his B.S. and M.Eng. from Cornell University in Operations Research & Information Engineering, Ryan was Co-Founder and CEO of VideoNote LLC, a software company dedicated to capturing and indexing the videos of college lectures.
Ryan is passionate about using technology and software to solve hard problems that allow man to play to his/her strengths. He was formerly a champion rower and road cyclist so is particularly passionate about ending the use of fossil fuels in an economically rational way.