Patrick Ryan

Patrick Ryan is an Executive Consultant at Afterburner since March 2022 and serves as the F-22 Director of Operations at the 433rd Weapons Systems Squadron for the United States Air Force since May 2022. Previously, Patrick held the role of F-22 Operational Test Pilot with the 422 Test and Evaluation Squadron from January 2020 to December 2021 and was the F-22 Chief of Weapons and Tactics at the 43rd Fighter Squadron for a brief period in late 2019. Patrick also served as an F-22 Instructor Pilot at the 43rd Fighter Squadron from August 2017 to July 2018 and was a Fighter Pilot in the USAF from August 2011 to March 2013. Academically, Patrick graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 2011 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and completed the USAF Fighter Weapons School in 2018.