Ryan Finley

Ryan Finley is the Senior Manager of Ecommerce Search and Findability at Ferguson. Ferguson is the largest value-added distributor serving the specialized professional in our $340B residential and non-residential North American construction market. We help make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful and sustainable by providing expertise and a wide range of products and services from plumbing, HVAC, appliances, and lighting to PVF, water and wastewater solutions, and more. Headquartered in Newport News, Va., Ferguson has sales of $29.7 billion (FY’23) and approximately 35,000 associates in 1,700 locations. Ryan began his Ecommerce career at CDW in Vernon Hills, Illinois as a web editor. Ryan trained as the "backup" Ecommerce Search associate back in 2008, and 2 weeks later he was the ONLY Ecommerce Search associate at CDW. Ryan headed up search at CDW until 2013, when he joined Kohl's in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin to see the B2C side of Ecommerce search. Ryan helped grow the Kohl's Ecommerce search channel to a $1bn segment of the business during his 7 years with the company. Ryan went back to the B2B fold when he joined the Ferguson search team in March of 2020. Ryan lives in Wisconsin with his wife, 3 children, and 2 dogs.