John O. Ridley
President

Mr. Ridley is President and Founder of Dryden Group (Dryden). Dryden is a professional consultancy that provides strategic direction and customized programs to help major corporations, government agencies, and other large organizations control costs.

Over the last 10 years, Mr. Ridley has developed innovative approaches used by Dryden to reduce basic expenditures producing savings of over $200 million for its clients.

Prior to co-founding Dryden, Mr. Ridley was the former sales tax technical director for Chartwell Advisory Group, Ltd., a sales and use tax consulting firm. At Chartwell, Mr. Ridley’s responsibilities included generating sales tax refunds and reducing sales tax audits for companies across numerous industries. Specifically, Mr. Ridley’s responsibilities included coordination of sales tax reverse audits, audit defense/abatement, and sales tax planning.

Mr. Ridley served as a sales and use tax auditor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Revenue for twenty years. In addition to the audits of thousands of large and medium-sized companies, Mr. Ridley supervised the audits of Fortune 500 companies located throughout the United States.