Preston Ridley

Preston Ridley possesses extensive experience in software development and technology leadership, serving as Co-Founder and CTO of socialsales.io since April 2018, where innovative social selling solutions are developed for the direct sales industry. Prior roles include Director of Software Development at Genesis PURE Corp., where responsibilities included overseeing all software systems and creating an offshore development team, and a long tenure at Mary Kay as Technical Advisor and Senior Solutions Architect, collaborating with executive leadership and managing a large distributed team. Additionally, Preston founded TeacherLingo.com, a social network for educators that was subsequently sold, and has held positions as Senior Programmer at Homebuilder.com and Lead Developer at Sales Support Services. Preston holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Western Illinois University and is pursuing an MBA at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.