Rick Snyder is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of SensCy, founded in 2022 to provide an affordable, easy-to-understand, sensible solution tailored for small – medium sized companies to better protect themselves from cyberattacks.
Snyder served two terms as Governor of Michigan from 2011-2018. He led an economically depressed bottom 10 state to top-10 status in eight years. Michigan became a national and regional leader in private sector job creation and increases in per capita income. Snyder was responsible for restructuring Detroit, which was critical to enabling its great comeback. Multiple other major economic, educational, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and quality of life programs were implemented during his tenure.
Snyder also founded two $100 million venture capital investment firms – Avalon Investments and Ardesta. Successful exits included Health Media, HandiLab, and Esperion.
He previously served as Chairman and President of Gateway and grew the company from 600 to 13,000 employees and $600 million to $6 billion in revenue. Snyder’s career began at Coopers & Lybrand where he rose to partner in six years and focused on tax and mergers and acquisitions services.
Snyder has been actively involved in many nonprofits, including service as the first Chair of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and Ann Arbor Spark.