Ryan Platten

Ryan has always needed to know how things work — and what happens when they don't. Growing up, that meant building custom PCs, tinkering with operating systems, and running tabletop RPG campaigns that were frankly more elaborate than they needed to be. Somewhere along the way, he realized that curiosity plus storytelling was basically a career.

He started in the high-velocity world of B2C, where he honed his demand generation chops and learned that speed and clarity aren't optional. From there, he moved into data center hardware and network monitoring — picking up the technical fluency to talk infrastructure without putting a room to sleep. Then cybersecurity came calling, and five years later, Ryan hasn't looked back.

As VP of Marketing at Binary Defense, Ryan leads the charge on helping clients understand not just what Binary Defense does, but why it matters to their business. 

When he's not connecting dots between complex security problems and the people trying to solve them, he's probably rolling dice. The campaigns are just higher stakes now.