Ryan Morris

Ryan Morris serves as President and Owner of Blackwood, where he leads the company’s vision, culture, and execution with a relentless focus on differentiation and sustainable growth. As chief steward of the organization’s long-term strategy, Ryan ensures that Blackwood scales with discipline - empowering his executive team to drive day-to-day execution while divisional leaders operate as General Managers responsible for the health and performance of their divisions. 

Ryan joined Blackwood in 2008 and developed the company’s modern focus on Cybersecurity and Data Analytics. From the outset, he encouraged a hyper-focused approach to sales by targeting only technology companies positioned to radically outperform their competition. By identifying uniquely innovative vendors early and ensuring their success in the field, Ryan helped shape Blackwood’s reputation as a partner that seeks out big problems worth solving. His disciplined approach to selecting both partners and customers has been fundamental to the company’s credibility and success in tackling the Public Sector’s most complex challenges. 

Throughout his career, Ryan has advanced through every level of the organization. After earning his B.S. in Marketing from Towson University, he began his career at Blackwood as an Account Manager, spending his first five years seeding new territories and establishing the foundation for future growth. He later served as Federal Director, and then as Senior Director of Operations overseeing the entire sales organization. In 2018, he became a Managing Partner, and today he serves as Owner and President, guiding Blackwood through its most transformative era yet. 

Under Ryan’s leadership, Blackwood is executing an ambitious strategy to rehydrate the idea of partnership in our industry. By investing in differentiation, forcing market standards, and maintaining an employee-first culture, the company is creating a new category in the channel: the Technology Broker.