Ray is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has over 35 years of experience in launching, funding, scaling, and selling companies through a total of 15 successful exits. He understands the unique challenges that CEOs face.
Ray is the managing director of Exit Experts, which he found to help business owners raise growth capital, sell their companies, and achieve financial freedom. He has facilitated investments from institutions, family offices, crowdfunding campaigns, and angel investors, with over $52M in capital raised. He manages the M&A process for clients from broad search to deal close, and has completed transactions with large private and public companies including J&J, Stryker, and Mpac Group plc. He also is the acting CFO, advisor to, and/or investor in a number of high growth companies in the healthcare, biotech, transportation, software, climate/clean technology, machine manufacturing, lab instrument, and medical device industries.
As a Managing Partner of Aravaipa Ventures Fund II, Ray supports the selection, development, and funding of the portfolio companies. He has been a member of the Aravaipa Investment Committee since 2016 and has raised over $10M in capital for Aravaipa Ventures Fund I and its portfolio companies. Ray has been an investor in Aravaipa since its inception in 2008 and has made multiple follow-on and side car investments since then.
Ray holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is currently a doctoral candidate in business at the University of Florida.