Ryan Colas

Ryan Colas is Acquia’s Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for leading global Sales, Presales, Channel, and Revenue Operations. He focuses on building a clear, disciplined go-to-market motion and driving sustainable growth across Acquia’s digital experience platform.

Ryan brings more than 15 years of experience leading and scaling revenue organizations in PE-backed software and technology companies. Most recently, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at Safeguard Global, where he reshaped the company’s global GTM strategy, strengthened alignment across teams, and delivered significant growth.

Before Safeguard, Ryan held senior revenue leadership roles across companies ranging from $50M to $400M in revenue, where he led initiatives in sales process improvement, new market expansion, M&A integration, sales capacity planning, and team development. Earlier in his career, he spent a decade at ADP in sales leadership roles across two business units.

Ryan is known for bringing clarity to priorities, creating simple and effective operating rhythms, and developing strong, accountable teams.

He is based in Austin, Texas with his family.