Speaker Profile

Ryan Edens is the CEO of FlyQuest, an esports organization with teams currently competing in the League of Legends, Rocket League, and Players Unknown Battleground. FlyQuest as a was founded a new esports organization in December of 2016 after acquiring the Clould 9 challenger team slot in the NALCS and has since expanded into 2 other esports. The organization has recently brought on multiple high profile non endemic sponsors. Ryan was born and raised in New York City on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He went to college at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota and graduated with a bachelors degree in Economics. Before founding FlyQuest, he worked for Manhattan Capital, a private investment firm that identifies and develops assets with unique potential for capital appreciation in the sports entertainment sector, and OneMain Financial a leading American consumer lender.