James Ray Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, GA, US

Your Vision, Our MissionNext Stage Trajectory helps founders accelerate their valuation by 10x in 48 months (or less). The global contacts and reach of the Founding Partners within the global financial community provides our clients with unparalleled access to executives and organizations that shorten the journey to success.Our group of Founding Partners.

St Petersburg, Florida, US

Empowering Brands in the On-Demand and Convenience-Driven Economy. SKUx technology offers near real-time reconciliation and settlement while leveraging the power of blockchain to improve security, transparency and efficiency of promotional offers.

Investing in and advising early stage / high growth companies with innovative strategies that scale to achieve profitable and sustainable growth.

Alpharetta, Georgia, US

SURREAL is a platform-as-a-service publishing tool for metaverse creation that combines storytelling, game design and multiplayer immersion—enabling people to live, work, shop and play together like never before. Onward!

Chicago, IL, US

GoDo is an emerging company focused on financial inclusion for wage earners, a benefit delivered at no cost to employers *or* to their wage earners. If you’re passionate about helping people escape the cycle of debt and get on a path to financial health, let’s connect!>>> Bridging the gap between earned wages...and the cost of living. <<<

Chicago, IL, US

After joining the Board, I assumed the CEO role to prepare the company for launch and rapid growth.- hired key executives for Product and Business Development - orchestrated fundraising for the Seed Series- recruited the next CEO to take GoDo forward

New York, NY, US

• Led Business Development efforts for Multinational Enterprise accounts in the U.S., EU, APAC and LATAM for Chase Merchant Services and J.P.Morgan Treasury Solutions.
• Deepened relationships with J.P.Morgan global clients immersed in the transition to the convenience-driven and on-demand economy, including CPG Direct to Consumer and OEM Connected Car strategic initiatives.
• Crafted strategic alliances and partnerships necessary to achieve marketplace adoption of innovative solutions with collaborative effort, delivering holistic C2B payment solutions.

New York, NY, US

• Created a strategic enterprise sales team focused on the pursuit and capture of global enterprises for Chase Commerce Solutions, including Merchant Services, ChaseNet and Chase Pay.
• Launched and led a diverse team of highly accomplished sales professionals to pursue, capture and grow relationships with industry leaders - delivering best in class commerce solutions.
• Prioritized strategic portfolio accounts for pursuit using quantitative and qualitative criteria, with a focus on high transaction volume to optimize ChaseNet investment.
• Recruited, selected and coached a high performing team of senior sales executives focused on the pursuit and capture of global enterprises for Chase Commerce Solutions

Atlanta, GA, US

Founding executive leader of an experienced team of Global Account Executives that pursue, capture and grow Elavon’s relationships with selected multinational enterprise accounts in Airlines, Hospitality, and multinational retail clients. These individuals strategically manage client relationships with senior decision makers to ensure Elavon anticipates.

Atlanta, GA, US

Recruited to launch the Global Professional Services (GPS) organization for Elavon. Led the development and delivery of consulting, systems integration, and business process outsourcing capabilities that reduce clients’ overall cost of payment acceptance – delivering extraordinary value and leading to long-term business relationships.

Atlanta, GA, US

OVE.com is a leading online marketplace for the wholesale exchange of vehicles within the automotive industry - enabling OEM, Captive Finance, Rental Fleets and Other Lenders to remarket vehicles to wholesale buyers.I was responsible for defining customer strategy for this "intra-preneurial" venture, and designing the organization and processes required to.

Paris, FR

Inforte (formerly NASDAQ: INFT), 2003 Forbes Top 200 Small Businesses, helped companies acquire, develop and retain profitable customers with a unique combination of strategic, analytic and technology deployment services. Inforte merged with Business & Decision (FP: BND). As the Practice Leader for Business Services practice, accountable for market.

Co-Founder of this start-up Application Service Provider (ASP), successfully creating a marketing platform and business management toolset for small business owners. I completed the Strategic Opportunity Assessment and Business Plan for eReserve.net and developed Strategic Alliances with emergent ventures (e.g., Vicinity) and established business leaders.

Waltham, MA, US

Principal with this creativity and innovation consulting firm, leading efforts to pursue emerging market opportunities for collaborative software platform extending the benefits of proprietary methods and process.

Dallas, TX, US

AT&T SolutionsDirector of Professional Services for start-up professional services firm within AT&T, AT&T Solutions. Responsible for hiring and leading a team in the design and deployment of Professional Development programs and processes to achieve objectives for aggressive business expansion.Global Information Solutions (NCR) Co-founder of team.

Dublin 2, IE

Senior Manager in Accenture (Andersen Consulting) Change Management Services practice, focused on leading business transformation for clients in the Energy, Insurance and Telecommunications industries.

Bba, Accounting

Msod, Organization Development