Ryan Heining '91

Ryan Co-Founded MSpace Inc, an audiovisual integration company, with business partner Joel Peterson in April of 2002. The goal was to bridge the gap between furniture and technology in the conference room environment. ." In 2004 Ryan lead MSpace to its first acquisition of a former employer, Acoustic Communication Systems, from an AV industry leader in audio technology. Since that time Ryan, as President of MSpace, has successfully grown the business to include offices in Minnetonka, MN, Chicago Il and San Francisco, CA and employee 30 "MSpacers. The company has sustained double digital growth year over year, servicing clients throughout the U.S. As the leader of a highly technical audiovisual team at MSpace, it is Ryan's responsibility to insure that customers receive quality service at a fair price. He pursues vendors that know and understand our values as a business, and that with our employees we form a partnership that is focused on the common success of customers as well as ourselves. MSpace also is a profit sharing company which shares an equal percentage of the bottom line to each employee, no matter the pay grade or position of that person.

Ryan was born and raised in Atwater, MN located in the west central part of the state. Father was an independent insurance agent, mother remains working in the incentive travel business for Carlson Marketing Group. Two brothers, Joel 37 married with three children, and Eric 42. Both live in Chaska MN. Ryan resides in Hutchinson with his wife Michelle CSB '92, Kjirstin , Nickolas, and Isabelle Marie.