A Strong Entrepreneurial & Technology Foundation

AriaMedia's founder, president and CEO, Ryan Thompson, began his career as the fourth employee of a computer technology company located in southern Oklahoma. At the age of 14, Mr. Thompson was a part-time shipping clerk and technical support person responsible for managing customer issues with the company's manufactured computer memory products. By the end of the 1990s, Mr. Thompson had risen to the senior marketing position having helped build a $50,000,000 industry-leading computer memory manufacturer with over 100 employees.

During his tenure, Mr. Thompson dealt directly or indirectly with many small-to-medium design and development firms for consulting, design and programming in the highly aggressive computer technology industry. Ultimately, Mr. Thompson discovered that few smaller design and development firms, although able to produce quality solutions, attempted to understand the client's business. Mr. Thompson, believing that intimate understanding of a client's business objectives, market conditions and profitability goals would lead to a strong relationship, searched for a firm who fit this description. What Mr. Thompson found was that few small-to-medium firms had management staff with finance, operations, sales or marketing experience. Most of the management in smaller firms who had risen to the job from that of designer or developer, a role typically not associated with operational or financial aspects of business. Mr. Thompson was determined to make a difference.

He began building a marketing plan for his new company - AriaMedia. After successfully signing several small clients, Mr. Thompson took AriaMedia full time in early 2000. Within several months, Mr. Thompson had made a significant investment into the venture, incorporated the company, landed several new clients and hired a development and design staff.

Today, AriaMedia is recognized as a leading creative design and web software development firm in the Dallas-Fort Worth marketplace. AriaMedia builds solutions on the Internet such as websites, web applications, multimedia, content management solutions and more. From marketing strategy to creative design to development and programming, AriaMedia serves small startups to established large corporations.