
Ryan Snyder
Ryan has led Information Technology (IT) and Digital for Thermo Fisher Scientific since 2019. Prior to becoming CIO, he served as Vice President, IT, for our customer channels and pharmaceutical services businesses. He also led IT for enterprise efforts in quality and regulatory. Within the customer channels business, Ryan helped expand digital capabilities and enhance the customer experience through scaled global IT systems. He also led the technology integration and development of the IT organization within our pharmaceutical services business following Thermo Fisher’s acquisition of Patheon. Ryan joined Thermo Fisher in 2014 through the acquisition of Life Technologies, where he served in several IT leadership roles for the previous 10 years, including leading commercial, eBusiness and digital IT teams. Before joining the company, he spent five years at GE leading business and IT teams. Ryan holds an MBA and a master’s degree in information systems from State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and environmental studies from SUNY at Geneseo. Passionate about the intersection of IT, digital innovation and science, Ryan leads a global team supporting Thermo Fisher’s mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.