Ray Fortney

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Trustee & Vice Chairman, USS HORNET Museum @ Futures Explored Inc
lafayette, california, united states
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San Francisco Bay Area, United States
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About Ray Fortney

Ray Fortney is an experienced senior executive who now devotes his time to selected non-profits and to enjoying his retirement. Most recently he served as a Partner with Leadership Group Executive Search. While in executive search, Ray successfully completed assignments for Fortune 500 firms, and venture capital and private equity back companies in industry, technology and the cleantech sectors. These assignments have included CEO, C-level and VP level searches across all disciplines and functions.Prior to his career in executive search, Ray held several executive positions including CEO of VECTRA Technologies, an international services and technology company serving the power industry. He was previously executive vice president of CellNet Data Systems, a provider of smart grid technology for electrical utility industry. Ray also served as President and CEO of Impell Corporation and a Group President at Combustion Engineering, Inc.He has served on public, private, international, and non-profit boards of directors. His background includes extensive international experience with major clients in Canada, England, France, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. He began his career as an officer in the US Navy Nuclear Submarine program and served on nuclear submarines in Hawaii.Ray earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (with distinction) from the US Naval Academy and a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (NRC Scholarship). He also attended the Stanford Executive Program at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has been licensed as a Professional Engineer in over 20 states. Ray was a member of the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association's President Circle. He currently serves as a Trustee of the USS Hornet Museum, and a Trustee for Futures Explored, which provides life skills and work-related training to adults with developmental disabilities.

Ray Fortney's Current Company Details
Futures Explored Inc

Futures Explored Inc

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Trustee & Vice Chairman, USS HORNET Museum
lafayette, california, united states
Employees:
105
Ray Fortney Work Experience Details
  • Futures Explored Inc
    Vice Chair Board Of Directors
    Futures Explored Inc Jan 2016 - Present
    Concord, California, United States
  • Uss Hornet Museum
    Chairman & Trustee
    Uss Hornet Museum Apr 2009 - Present
    Alameda, Ca
    Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Leadership Group Executive Search
    Partner
    Leadership Group Executive Search Jun 2002 - Jan 2017
    San Francisco Bay Area
    LGES is a leading nationwide executive search firm with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, San Ramon, CA and Charleston, SC. Established in 1992, we are a boutique firm specializing in recruiting executives for technology and industry leading companies. A key differentiator for our firm is the operational experience held by our partners. Some have been CEOs of publicly traded companies. Others have been CXOs or VPs with leading technology companies. Others have been founders of their own companies. This executive experience gives us credibility and a platform from which to understand our clients and analyze potential candidates. While we recruit senior executives ranging from CEOs and heads of businesses, to functional areas such as head of marketing, sales, finance, HR, and legal, as well as outside directors, we excel at sourcing executives for positions where leadership is required.As a Partner at LGES, I specialize in the industrial sector, engineering/construction, agriculture, and technologies that focus on renewable energy, sustainability, water quality, transportation, and the environmental sector.
  • Cleantech Group, Llc
    Managing Partner, Cleantech Search
    Cleantech Group, Llc Jan 2007 - May 2009
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Cleantech Group helps business leaders make smarter, more strategic decisions involving cleantech innovation. Cleantech Group provides comprehensive, up-to-date information and insights into companies, investors and relationships across the clean technology ecosystem including the smart grid, energy efficiency, energy storage, smart water, and green transportation sectors. Cleantech Group also produces the premier Cleantech Forum conferences worldwide. Cleantech Search is the executive search service of the Cleantech Group. Its services are exclusive to the cleantech sector worldwide and leverage the world's largest data base in the cleantech sector.
  • Spencer Stuart
    Partner
    Spencer Stuart 1999 - 2002
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Spencer Stuart is one of the world's leading executive search consulting firms. As a partner in their high tech and industrial practices, I conducted C-level searches in energy, energy technology, e-commerce, and industrials sectors internationally.
  • Vectra Technologies
    President & Ceo
    Vectra Technologies 1994 - 1999
    VECTRA Technologies was a $125 million publicly traded company (NASDAQ: VCTR) providing professional services and specialized engineered products to the industrial and energy markets worldwide, including the US Departments of Energy and Defense. The Company’s businesses included engineering consulting and design services, radioactive waste management and packaging systems, chemical cleaning systems, hazardous waste packaging and shipping, and dry storage systems for spent nuclear fuel. The Company was recognized worldwide for its engineering analysis capabilities, specifically in seismic analysis of nuclear power plants. Its spent nuclear fuel technology is still the leading system in use in the United States. The Company had operations and licensees in the North America, England, France, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
  • Combustion Engineering
    Vice President And General Manager, Power Service And Nuclear Power Group
    Combustion Engineering 1988 - 1990
    As General Manager of the Power Services and Nuclear Power Group, I was responsible for CE's worldwide engineering services business to the power industry and also responsible for its worldwide Nuclear Power businesses. I was an elected officer of the Company, with responsibility for approximately 33% of the company's total revenues and earnings. Combustion Engineering (C-E) was an American engineering firm and leading firm in the development of power systems in the United States with approximately 30,000 employees in about a dozen states at its peak. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, C-E owned over two dozen other companies including Lummus Crest. Former workers have gone on to hold leadership positions in major engineering firms and governments around the world. The company was acquired by Asea Brown Boveri in the early 1990s. The boiler and fossil fuel businesses were purchased by ALSTOM in 2000, and the nuclear business was purchased by Westinghouse Electric Company also in 2000.
  • Impell Corporation
    President
    Impell Corporation 1986 - 1988
    Impell Corporation was the premier nuclear engineering services company in the nuclear industry. In 1984 Impell was acquired by Combustion Engineering and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary. As President of Impell Corporation, I was responsible for the overall performance and successfully grew the company from $75M to $125M in two years while integrating its services into CE's worldwide nuclear business.
  • Impell Corporation
    Vice President
    Impell Corporation Nov 1972 - 1986
    Joined as a Senior Engineer in Nuclear Systems Division. Later promoted to Director of Business Development, then Vice President & General Manager of Western Region and then Senior Vice President of Engineering Services. Impell was the premier nuclear engineering services company in the industry.
  • Us Navy
    Officer In Nuclear Submarines
    Us Navy Jun 1967 - Jan 1972
    Served on the USS Permit, SSN-594, homeported in Hawaii and later as an Instructor at A1W prototype in Idaho.

Ray Fortney Skills

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