Cika wannan jumla: Ryan tsohon dan tseren tsere ne, ya bar New Zealand zuwa Burtaniya a ƙarshen shekarunsa na goma sha biyu kuma ya shiga McLaren a matsayin makaniki. Ya yi aiki a kan McLaren M23 na Jochen Mass kuma tare da James Hunt lokacin da ya lashe gasar zakarun duniya a 1976. Bayan kusan shekaru goma a matsayin makaniki, an nada Ryan a matsayin Babban Injiniya ga ƙungiyar, kafin ya ɗauki matsayin manajan ƙungiyar masana'anta. A cikin 1990 ya ɗauki ƙarin alhakin a matsayin manajan ƙungiyar da ke kula da tseren da ayyukan ƙungiyar gwaji a kan hanya da kuma a masana'antar a Woking. Bayan shekaru 18, an nada shi a matsayin darektan wasanni tare da karin alhakin, duk da haka an dakatar da shi kafin babban kyautar Malaysia ta 2009 bayan wani lamari game da halin da ake ciki a lokacin rawaya.
Babban Gasar Ostiraliya ta 2009. A lokacin da yake tare da ƙungiyar ya yi aiki tare da irin su Formula One champions Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda, Mika Häkkinen da Lewis Hamilton kuma ƙungiyar ta lashe tsere 151, Gasar Drivers 12 da Gasar Constructors takwas.