Explain Data: From What to Why

Serial and occasionally parallel entrepreneur. Founder of three venture-backed startups: StreamBase, SellerCrowd, and Empirical Systems. Advisor to startups including uFora, Concord.io, Krypton Cloud, and Datawire. As an entrepreneurial technologist, Richard enjoys working from product vision, technological validation, and fundraising, through team creation, product delivery, and market development. Experienced player-coach in evangelical sales of sophisticated technology products into large enterprises, especially in financial services firms.

Ryan McShane leads the platform product marketing team at Tableau, where he is responsible for all product marketing efforts related to Tableau’s offerings. He has also held positions focused on analytics product marketing, community, and new product launches at Tableau. In a previous life he was a management consultant, focused on private equity due diligence. When he is not in the office, you’ll find him exploring the Pacific Northwest with his two young boys, or training for that next triathlon. He holds a BA in Economics from Brown University.