Ryan Founder & Managing director of Alba Hospitality & Lifestyle with over 20 year's experience in the Food & Beverage and hospitality industry, covering all aspects from brand creation to strategy, operations management in beach clubs, lifestyle restaurants & bars & nightlife venues globally.

Ryan has previously been in leadership roles with highly successful food & beverage hospitality groups, heading up concept creation, strategic planning as well as operating highly profitable multiple lifestyle beach clubs, restaurants & nightlife brands including Blue Marlin Ibiza UAE, The Act by The Box NYC, The Hatch Dubai, Cipriani & The Atlantis resort over the two decades of his hospitality career.

Ryan is the Co-founder of White rabbit creative agency, an entertainment & creative agency that specializes inunique concept creation, stage production, activations and artist management.

He is currently focused on curating & building his own F&B concepts, alongside helping Hospitality companies build new & innovative concepts with strategic realignment plans & processes for them to stay relevant in the current market. His latest Hospitality project venture as Co-founder of AKINA- a luxury contemporary Japanese restaurant & bar in the heart of Mumbai.

Ryan enjoys creating unique concepts in highly competitive markets, brands that guests can be stimulated by, immersed, and left with an emotional touch to all of their senses. He is in the constant pursuit of creating cinematic experiences.