Ray heads up the corporate finance efforts of 1st Corporate Technologies (“1CT”), a European and US based merchant banking, corporate finance advisory and investment firm focused on high-growth technology companies. Prior to joining 1CT, Ray was one of the original members of a US based international investment banking firm and was instrumental in growing this firm from its early entrepreneurial beginnings to an international reach. Ray draws on an extensive background in both investment banking and corporate law, and has a broad range of experience in the technology sector particularly in the software space. Areas of particular focus include enterprise software, including through a hosted or on-premise delivery model and involving SaaS based revenue models. Representative transactions in which Ray played a key role include the divestiture by Oracle of its On Target division to the TAS Group and the sales of Propero and Thinstall to VMWare, Adjoin to Computer Associates, Salesnet to RightNow Technologies, iPhrase to IBM, MarketSoft to Unica and Acumem AB to Rogue Wave Software, and the private placement funding of LogMeIn. Ray has a significant international investment banking experience with a focus on Europe and Scandinavia (in particular). Ray currently serves on the Investor Advisory and Organizing Committees of the annual Boston Cleantech Venture Day, the Board of Directors of the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce of New England and as an Advisor to the White Bull Summits. Ray also speaks regularly at conferences and other events about cross-border M&A and fundraising.