Ryan Schmidt

Ryan Schmidt brings three decades of commercial leadership across diagnostics, medical devices, and consumer health. His career has been defined by building commercial organizations from the ground up, launching market-defining products, and architecting the channels and partnerships that turn breakthrough science into market adoption.

Most recently, Ryan served as General Manager and Head of Commercial at KKR Sapphiros, where he built the portfolio-wide commercial infrastructure for a PE-backed consumer diagnostics platform. He established channels, brands, and distribution relationships ahead of the company's regulatory milestones, and supported four years of capital raises along with $31M in non-dilutive government funding.

Before Sapphiros, Ryan was Vice President of Marketing at Visby Medical, joining as the company's first commercial leader. He built the commercial organization through three venture rounds and the launch of the first single-use disposable PCR platform. Earlier in his career, Ryan led the U.S. commercial launch of the Alere i molecular diagnostics platform, now marketed by Abbott as ID NOW, the platform that anchored Abbott's $7B acquisition of Alere.

At AdvisoryDx, Ryan works with diagnostics companies navigating commercial build-outs, channel strategy, and platform launches. Whether a client is establishing distribution and KOL networks ahead of an FDA pathway, scaling a commercial organization through funding rounds, or repositioning a portfolio against shifting market conditions, Ryan brings the hands-on operating experience of a leader who has done the work, made the calls, and lived inside the numbers.