President, GRAA; President, Dealer Preferred Capital

Ryan serves as the President of GRAA and founded Dealer Preferred Capital in 2013. Prior to his involvement with GRAA, Ryan served as a Vice President at Alix Partners, the international turnaround and restructuring firm. In this role, he served in a variety of advisory and interim management roles at companies going through financial distress or other transitions. Earlier in his career, Ryan was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York where he advised private equity clients on M&A and financing transactions. Ryan began his career in the Leveraged Finance group at Bear Stearns where he worked on a number of high yield, leveraged loan and acquisition financing. Ryan has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

General Manager
canderson@graa.net

GRAA welcomed Chad in 1997 as an employee of the detail department. While finishing high school, college, and graduate school, he worked around classes, on summer breaks and ultimately full time in various areas including the detail, fleet/lease, and sales departments. He earned his MBA from Northern Illinois University and a BA in Management/Marketing from Concordia University Wisconsin. Chad’s experience and determination led him to the current General Manager position at GRAA. His goals for GRAA include maintaining excellence in customer service, while continuing to move forward and be innovative in the Auction industry. He believes in placing the customer first by working consistently to develop more opportunities, provide technological advancement and keep the promise of an exciting and productive weekly sale with talented, loyal staff.