Ryan Taylor grew up swinging hammers in his family's home improvement business, where he learned that time is a contractor's most valuable resource. Watching his family sacrifice evenings and weekends to keep their business running sparked his obsession with finding ways to help small and medium-sized home improvement companies compete with the big players.

That childhood experience in the trades led Ryan to over a decade of sales leadership across multiple industries, but he always found his way back to home improvement. He spent more than a year running measuring, planning, sales, and installation operations for a national kitchen remodeling company, managing teams across 50 U.S. markets before expanding operations into the United Kingdom. Working specifically with IKEA installations, Ryan saw firsthand how the right systems could transform chaotic project management into smooth, profitable operations.

Ryan's diverse background includes marketing experience at Constant Contact, where he helped small businesses scale, and enterprise data work that gave him insight into what really drives business growth. But it's his roots in home improvement that make him passionate about helping contractors get their lives back while growing their businesses.

These days, Ryan channels that competitive drive into helping Builder Prime customers succeed—though he admits his golf game still needs work, typically losing "2 sleeves of golf balls while struggling through 18 holes on the weekend."