Ray served as EY’s Global Markets Leader for the Assurance Practice from 2016 to June of 2022. During this period EY Assurance experienced exceptional growth going from $10 billion in revenue to over $14 billion in 2022. In this same period EY secured the market leading audit share in the Fortune 500 and Forbes 2000 netting over 60 new audit clients in this top index. Prior to this role, Ray successfully led Business Development for EY EMEIA, from June 2011 until June 2016. Ray moved to Europe in 2006 where he served as the Area Director of Business Development for the Central European Area for two years. He then took responsibility as the Head of Business Development for Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GSA) in 2008 when the EMEIA area was formed. In 2009 Ray moved to EY Global serving as an Office of the Chairman Accounts Business Development Leader on several of the firm’s largest clients.Ray has over 36 years of experience managing large, complex corporate clients and driving successful pursuits, as well as over 23 years of leadership with both business development and client serving teams. He prides himself on mentoring successful business development executives and building cohesive, focused and motivated teams.BackgroundSince joining EY in 1998, Ray has held a range of positions, including Strategic Growth Markets Business Development Executive for The North Carolina market where he worked closely with early stage, venture backed IT and Life Science clients. In 2003 Ray became a Global Sales Executive focused on EY’s SOX404 services for Foreign Private Issuers, working in Ireland, Sweden, South Africa and the UK. In 2004 Ray was appointed as the Business Development Leader for Sydney, Australia. In 2006 Ray relocated from Sydney to Frankfurt to become the Area Director of Business Development for the Central European Area, where he was responsible for designing and implementing the go to market business development strategy. Prior to joining E&Y Ray spent 13 years with Deluxe Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, in a number of successively larger sales and management positions across the US.