Ryan Clark, MBA
Co-founder & CTO
The engineer behind the platform: the payouts, the seat maps, and the check-in that just works the moment the doors open.
About Ryan
Ryan Clark is the co-founder and CTO of Ticket Falcon. He and his identical twin, Ashton, have been building businesses together since they were teenagers, from an online sneaker company and a music startup to the first Black-owned online ticketing service for general-admission events, which they launched as students at the University of Illinois.
Ryan earned a Bachelor's Degree in Accountancy with a minor in Technology and Management (Engineering) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA from the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul University. As CTO, he leads the engineering behind everything organizers and attendees touch: Direct Payouts, the reserved-seating designer, real-time check-in, and the infrastructure that keeps it all fast and reliable at scale.
Ryan believes that success means nothing unless you bring others along the way, and he mentors and gives back as often as he can. A Chicago Defender Men of Excellence honoree, he is a lifetime member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and a member of the 100 Black Men of Chicago, where he co-chairs the annual Holiday Toy Drive and works to improve the quality of life and educational opportunities of African-American males across the Greater Chicago area.
What Ryan leads
Where the founder ends and the platform begins: the work behind what you use every day.
Platform engineering
Owns the codebase behind ticketing, seating, fundraising, and check-in.
Direct Payouts
Built the payments architecture that pays organizers as they sell, straight to their own Stripe account.
Reserved seating
Leads the interactive seat designer and real-time seat holds, down to the table.
Reliability at scale
Keeps the platform fast and dependable, from a 50-seat show to a 5,000-seat venue.
“Success means nothing unless you bring others along the way.”
Honored on and off the platform
Men of Excellence
Chicago Defender Men of Excellence honoree.
40 Under 40
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
An industry first
Co-built the first Black-owned online GA ticketing service.
Alpha Phi Alpha
Lifetime member of the fraternity.
Meet Ashton
Where great events take flight.
Build the kind of event Ashton & Ryan set out to make possible. No setup fees, no contracts, paid as you sell.