About
Ryan Smith is founder and executive chairman of Qualtrics, the leader in customer experience and creator of the experience management (XM) category. He has grown the company from a basement startup to one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the world, with 25 offices globally and more than 13,000 customers, including over 85% of the Fortune 100, and 99 of the top 100 business schools. In the private market, Qualtrics raised $400M in funding from Accel, Sequoia, and Insight Venture Partners. Three days before the company was initially scheduled to go public, SAP announced its intent to acquire Qualtrics for $8B, which was the largest private enterprise software acquisition ever. In 2020, Qualtrics and SAP announced plans to take Qualtrics public as an independently operated company. Ryan co-founded 5 For The Fight, the crowdfunding campaign to eradicate cancer by inviting everyone to give $5 for the fight against cancer by supporting groundbreaking cancer research. Ryan and his wife Ashley purchased the NBA’s Utah Jazz in 2020.