Ryan N. Bennett
Technical product executive. Compliance-heavy B2B SaaS and AI-native product.
I turn underperforming product and engineering teams into engines of customer value and growth.
More than two decades building and scaling SaaS across public safety, healthcare, fintech, and travel, plus Fortune 500 consulting. I pair a computer science background with product management expertise and P&L ownership, so the strategy actually ships.
Selected impact
- 800K+
- People wearing a CENTEGIX CrisisAlert badge daily, across 180,000+ protected locations and four of the ten largest U.S. school districts.
- 8
- M&A transactions from the product and technology chair: MeasureUp into Certiport, World Health Alternatives into Jackson Healthcare, Catapult into CENTEGIX, AppointmentPlus into DaySmart, ista into Yardi, and Tea Leaves Health through three changes of ownership, ending at Welltok.
- 100%
- Renewal of three at-risk hospital-system clients at Tea Leaves Health, through a targeted customer-rescue roadmap.
- 55%
- Share of company revenue at LocumTenens.com generated by the physician-staffing platforms built and scaled from 2006 to 2009.
- 3×
- Verdata client-base growth in a single year, retaining every client.
Where I’ve done it
CENTEGIX
Director, Product Management · 2023–2026
Owned the full platform and product lifecycle for the Safety Platform suite of products. Defined the strategy for a public REST API and integration marketplace, opening the platform to 911 dispatch, video surveillance, and student information systems, and introduced Real-Time Response Activity, giving staff and first responders live insight into an emergency response as it happens. Led the platform push that underpins the entire suite: SSO, user provisioning, and user-experience updates. Directed the day-to-day work of multiple product development teams, engineers and UX specialists included, and led a cross-functional coalition through the whole lifecycle, from ideation and discovery through market research, investment strategy, and roadmap prioritization to operational readiness and go-to-market, including webinars and podcasts.
Verdata
VP, Operations & Product Development · 2021–2023
A startup fintech that scores small-business loan worthiness and verifies businesses for lenders through KYB (know your business) checks. Joined as the fifth employee and first executive hire. Developed the SaaS platform, the integration platform, the AI/ML scoring model, and the business intelligence data pipeline with a team of developers, data engineers, and AI experts, and expanded delivery capacity 400% through hiring and a nearshoring partnership.
Tea Leaves Health
VP, Product Development · 2016–2018
A healthcare SaaS serving hospital systems, with custom AI/ML models built into the platform. Owned product and engineering along with the SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance efforts. Led an enterprise agile transformation that synchronized strategy, product, and engineering, speeding feature delivery and lifting customer lifetime value. Ran technical due diligence for the company’s divestiture, carried through to acquisition by Welltok.
Universal Mind
Principal Consultant · 2012–2016 and 2018–2019
Two stints, bracketing Tea Leaves Health, advising Fortune 500 clients on product strategy, digital delivery, and agile transformation: Adobe, Amway, T-Mobile, Wells Fargo, Raymond James, Principal Financial, Meijer, and GameStop. Built the Nutrilite Product Recommender for Amway, an early machine-learning personalization engine.
Earlier and in between: physician staffing platforms, travel tech, and M&A product-integration consulting. Full history on LinkedIn.
What I build
The work I do when I’m not doing it inside someone else’s org.
Fractional product, technology, and Chief of Staff leadership for growth-stage teams. Operators who embed and deliver, not slide decks.
An AI-native product-management platform that remembers what you decided, and why. With receipts. Built on retrieval and agentic workflows, it drafts product docs from your real context and can still answer “why did we do it this way?” six months later. For fractional CPOs, product consultants, and lean B2B SaaS teams.
Credentials
MBA, Louisiana State University, data analytics concentration.
BS, Computer Science, Troy University.
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