Ryan Schonfeld

Ryan Schonfeld
Ryan Schonfeld
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder, HiveWatch

In 2015, Founder Ryan Schonfeld was working as a leader of a Fortune 500 company’s Global Security & Safety Technology Group when he decided he just couldn’t take the status quo anymore. Constantly hearing, ‘because that’s the way it’s always been done’ and inefficiencies stemming from disparate systems and antiquated practices had gotten to be too much for him. With that, RAS Consulting & Investigations was created to walk his clients through planning, education, and management of risk and liability, creating best-in-class, technology-forward security programs for rapidly growing organizations. Through these services he found that there was a need for scalable security, which some companies didn’t have the knowledge or human capital to create. From there sprung the idea of RAS Watch (now HiveWatch's virtual GSOC), a global security operation center (GSOC) as a service. In March of 2020 when the world stopped turning and the COVID-19 pandemic took over, Ryan recognized another need for a SaaS platform to make security leaders more aware, more connected, more proactive, and more informed - so he founded HiveWatch. Ryan holds a masters in Information Systems and Technology from George Washington University and a B.S. in Justice from American University with a minor in Information Systems and Technology. He is proud of his past work as a police officer and investigator and an instructor for the U.S. Department of State's Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. Ryan continues to serve as a volunteer Reserve Police Officer.

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