Ryan Miller

CV

Career

From co-founding an outdoor hotel brand in California to marketing AI compute in Europe.

Timeline

  1. Apr 2024 – present

    Director of Marketing · Impossible Cloud

    Hamburg, Germany · European neocloud for bare-metal GPUs, AI-native object storage and AI services

    Promoted from Product Marketing Manager (2024) to Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Growth (2025) to Director of Marketing (2026)

    • Led the repositioning from Europe's sovereign cloud storage to the sovereign intelligence cloud, which influenced millions in open GPU pipeline
    • Program lead for three launches: serverless inference, dedicated inference, and bare metal with managed Slurm and Kubernetes
    • Created Compute Connect: 5 editions in 90 days, 10 GPU opportunities and millions in net-new open pipeline
    • Runs the global field program: 27 events across 7 regions and created strongest marketing-influenced pipeline from events in the company's history
    • Launched the US channel from a cold start
    • Runs executive LinkedIn across six accounts, including the CEO: 65 meetings booked in 90 days
    • Built the customer story program solo: 15 case studies in 4 languages, influencing millions in closed-won ARR
    • Shipped a new website in 4 weeks, in English and German; inbound leads grew 3× in 18 months
    • Designed the team's AI agent stack, doubling marketing capacity
    See the case studies
  2. Aug 2022 – Apr 2024

    Marketing Director · Sentral

    San Francisco · Regional head of marketing for a portfolio of high-end residential communities

    • Aligned sales, operations, technology and outside agencies behind one marketing strategy across 10 client accounts
    • Contributed to $45M in annual closed-won leases on a $1.5M annual marketing budget
    • Owned website, search, social and advertising: web conversions up 600% and closed-won up 42% year over year
  3. 2012 – 2022

    Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer · AutoCamp

    San Francisco · Created a new category, the Airstream-and-cabin boutique hotel in nature · still a co-founder and equity holder

    • Wrote all of AutoCamp's positioning for ten years: brand platform, identity, website and the business plan
    • Grew from one site to 9 locations, from Joshua Tree to the Catskills; now partnered with Hilton
    • Onboarded Airstream as design partner and investor and helped attract $115M in institutional investment
    • Launched each new market as a product; the Russian River opening in 2016 went viral in San Francisco
    • Built the corporate buyout and retreat offering, closing deals with Apple, Google and Meta
    • TIME named AutoCamp Yosemite one of the World's Greatest Places (2019); created the 250-guest Yosemite Fall Festival
    Read the AutoCamp case study
  4. 2008 – 2012

    B.A. Environmental Studies · UC Santa Barbara

    Highest Honors · Phi Beta Kappa · editor and contributor, WORD Magazine · exchange year at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2010 – 2011)