Ryan Petersen

Ryan Petersen (born ) is an American businessman and the founder and CEO of Flexport, a technology-driven freight forwarding and supply chain management company. He is also a venture partner at Founders Fund since 2023. In his early career, he co-founded ImportGenius with his brother in 2006.

Early life Petersen grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. His father was a government economist and his mother was a biochemist who ran her own business. At the age of 17, he started an import-export business with his brother David, buying goods from China and selling them on EBay.

Flexport In 2013, Petersen founded Flexport to sell international freight shipping and supply chain services to businesses, including tariffs, customs, and tracking. Some of Petersen's suggestions to increase capacity for empty shipping containers higher were implemented by local authorities. The impact of the changes was difficult to measure,

Personal life Petersen is married to journalist Olivia Zaleski and they have two daughters.