Ryan VanGorder

Ryan VanGorder is the CEO of Opto Investments, a private-markets platform for wealth managers co-founded by Joe Lonsdale and backed by 8VC. A former BlackRock managing director who spent his early career at Seattle hedge-fund-of-funds Quellos, he is also a veteran adventure racer who has competed in more than thirty multi-day expedition races and once survived heat stroke in the Utah desert at 126 degrees.