About Our CEO
My entrepreneurial background started in grade school with a lawn care business. I started my second company while completing my BS in Computer Science at the University of North Texas, repairing PCs for Bose speaker corporation’s displays in Sam’s Clubs. I was also employed at UNT during this time, with a team migrating 5,000 desktop PCs from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, and assisting with campus-wide network upgrades. After graduating from UNT, I went to work for a small IT consulting firm in Dallas, which was acquired a year later to become the Dallas branch of a pre-IPO nationwide startup called All Bases Covered. While DFW companies were first onboarding onto the Internet, our branch grew from 8 technicians to 38 technicians in just a few months, and the company grew from 300 to over 700 people within a couple of years. Our Dallas branch led the nation in process development and profitability, helping All Covered to become “the IBM of small business”.
Ryan Huettner, CEO of Qoverage
In 2004 I founded and served as President of a new small-business IT consulting company in Dallas. Through difficult economic times, Solace grew >100% year over year, thanks to our focus on people and processes. In late 2008 I sold my interest in the company, and I founded Qoverage in early 2009.
My dad was an x-ray service engineer, and my brother is a software engineer. I have been immersed in a technical environment since birth. I grew up building Legos, Erector Sets, R/C cars and model rockets. I wrote my own games for the Commodore 64. In high school and college I fell in love with Computer Science, where my creative spirit and my techie brain came together. Writing code and building slick algorithms is a fun challenge, but it always seemed to alienate real-world business people. I could feel a gap between engineering ideology and human interests. Connecting people and helping them embrace technology to solve problems has always been the challenge. In my consulting role, I figured out that our team could make businesses stronger by making people happier and more successful. I have had many “aha moments” with these connections, and that’s why I got into IT consulting, and that’s why I have never left.
I have helped hundreds of executives bridge the gap, relentlessly evolving their IT operational maturity levels to better serve their businesses. It is this passion for business transformation that I bring to Qoverage and to our clients. I will continue to grow Qoverage in an exciting environment, with an empowered and passionate team.