Chief Executive Officer
Formerly: Smith & Wesson, Retail Technology Group (RTG / AXIS), Gearfire Payments, Ernst & Young, Protiviti, Ticket Network and United Technologies Corporation
Sample FFL Customers: SCCY Firearms, RemArms, Big 5 Sporting Goods, Adventure Outdoors, Poway Range, Bill’s Gun Shop, North 40 Outfitters, Pawn America, Davidson’s / Gallery of Guns, Sports South, Palmetto State Armory, CZ-USA, SilencerCo, Frontier Justice, Black Wing, Big Rock Sports, and hundreds of others.
Jon Rydberg has served as Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Orchid LLC holdings since September 2012. For a portion of this time, he also served as CEO and a financier of the Retail Technology Group. For the last ten years he has been focused on the shooting sports industry where he was an executive at Smith & Wesson Holding Corp and a strategic advisor to FFLs across the U.S. At present, his holdings provide Retail POS software, Manufacturing ERP software, eCommerce applications, integrated FFL compliance software, credit card processing and FFL services delivered via the industry’s largest firearm compliance firm.
Previously, Mr. Rydberg was the Chief Marketing Officer of Ticket Network, the 2nd largest online ticket marketplace in the United States. Mr. Rydberg also served as a Managing Director at Protiviti and a Group Manager at Ernst & Young LLP. In the capacity of an executive advisor, Mr. Rydberg helped numerous Fortune 500 companies build stronger supply chain and manufacturing operations through automation and process control. He is known for his expertise in ERP technology, inventory management, process automation and financial and regulatory process control. Mr. Rydberg is the author of several works dedicated to supply chain management, Sarbanes-Oxley, FFL / ATF firearm compliance and he is also the founder of the Firearm Industry Conference.
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