Ryan Pintado-Vertner

Ryan Pintado-Vertner is a systems thinker, marketing veteran and collaboration catalyst with over two decades of experience guiding the strategy, marketing, innovation and ESG choices of Fortune-level companies, venture-backed enterprises, and nonprofits. He earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.

He is the Founder & CEO at Smoketown, a boutique consultancy that helps brands, businesses and nonprofits flourish in ways that also transform their ecosystems. Smoketown’s core services include: strategic planning; fractional leadership in marketing and innovation; mission & vision setting; multi-stakeholder collaboration; human-centered design; and AI-powered marketing measurement. Clients have included Edacious, Purely Elizabeth, New Hope Network, Bragg Live Foods, Public Health Communications Collaborative, DeeBee’s Organics and Aura Bora.

He is also a writer (Substack newsletter Big Fight), a board member at Mad Agriculture, an advisor at Trailhead Capital and Whipstitch Capital, and a co-founder of (included), the largest peer network of CEOs-of-color in the CPG industry.