As an entrepreneur, software tech executive, and investor, Jan Ryan has been focused on building early and expansion stage companies for over 25 years, resulting in four successful acquisitions and one IPO. Always attracted to disruptive growth opportunities, Jan’s long-standing mantra has been: “Fall in love with making your customers’ lives better.” This has led to a successful track record of building industry-recognized teams in both public and privately held companies.

When her last company was acquired in 2012, Jan's passion for women entrepreneurs led her to found Women@Austin, a community focused 100% on increasing the success ratios of female-led business. With a Board of some of the most successful female leaders in Austin, Women@Austin has been strengthening the ecosystem for women for two and a half years, now with over 650 members.

Jan co-founded Social Dynamx in 2009 with a passion to transform customer care in the age of social technologies. As President of Social Dynamx, Jan was driven by customers’ changing expectations in their purchase cycle with brands, and the ability to predict customer behavior and intentions based on the imprint of their social activity. The company brought to market the first social customer care platform designed for the needs of big enterprises, and quickly attracted several large customers such as DISH Network, Time Warner Cable, and HP. This led to an acquisition by industry leader Lithium Technologies in the Fall of 2012.

Jan originally moved to Austin in 1996 to be founding VP of Sales for Vignette Corporation, an early Internet enterprise software company that had a successful IPO in 1999. Subsequent to this, Jan was CEO of Sigma Dynamics, a San Mateo-based early provider of real-time predictive analytics and marketing platform that was acquired by Oracle (ORCL) in 2006.

Laura Bosworth, CEO/co-founder of TeVido BioDevices, is a dynamic former Fortune 50 executive with 25+ years of cross-functional industry experience. TeVido is a biotech start-up using innovative 3D bioprinting and a woman’s own cells to create tissue engineered solutions for reconstruction after breast cancer. Recent press coverage includes CNBC, CNN, The Economist, Popular Science and many more. The company has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Cancer Institute and the LIVESTRONG Foundation

With a B.S. in Engineering from UTEP, Bosworth started her career in manufacturing process development for IBM. She quickly moved into management where she led software development and launched a Technical Marketing Center earning a General Manager’s Award for her contributions to sales and customer relationships. At Dell, she built strategic business partnerships with large companies such as Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle and led software product marketing delivering significant product feature improvement, highlighted by industry analysts. Ms. Bosworth is recognized for her skill in starting up new business functions and created multiple technical sales support functions including an OEM business unit: enabling over $500M in sales. She launched a professional services business unit and has expertise in customer support services. Using her cross-functional and international experience, she developed corporate wide quality strategies that reduced operating costs by ~$120M.

Ms. Bosworth has volunteered for numerous non-profits, primarily supporting women’s needs in the Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) field as well as domestic violence – in Board positions as well as providing direct service. Ms. Bosworth developed curricula, taught and provided mentorship with several applied entrepreneurship programs -focused on mentoring aspiring underrepresented and women entrepreneurs to develop their own high-growth companies.