Ray Thackeray

Experience

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  Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1993

  Marketing Director, Change Management Guru

  ECAD Marketing, signed a number of Silicon Valley partners to DEC's softwareDeveloped methodology to allow electronic and software projects to be completed faster, better and quicker and co-author of QFD for software and embedded systems development.Managed a large part of the 20,000 attendee DECworld 1997 in Boston, MA. Brought in the QE2 and Oceanic alongside the World Trade Center because we ran out of hotel space in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and conference room space in Boston. Thousands of staff, thousands of breakout sessions, over 2 weeks.Managed Application Center for Technology in Ottawa, Canada, solution groups as a resource for the company and customers in Electronic and Mechanical CAD. Show less

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  Insignia Solutions

  Dec 1994 - Jul 1998

  Senior Director of Product Management

  Virtualization server software, Citrix partnership. Softwindows product line. Promoted to Senior Director of Sales, doubled sales in 6 months by changing strategy from Direct to Channel sales.

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  Internet Image Inc.

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  VP Sales and Marketing

  Built the company's sales, including major win at AT&T, to the point where this company was acquired.Appeared on Television in World Business Review with Casper Weinberger and Vint Cerf discussing technology.

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  Seeuthere.com / OnVantage

  Sept 1998 - Sept 2002

  Co-founder, VP Sales & Marketing

  Lead patent name in original SaaS (ASP) meetings management technology. Part of the executive management team obtaining about $30 million. Part of team that almost concluded acquisition by MP3.com (merger filing approved and down to the wire before MP3's troubles with RIAA etc.) for nearly $250 million, only 3 months after product launch - resulted in MP3.com's investment in seeUthere of over $18 million and the 2nd and 3rd rounds of investment.Concluded the first Agency and Corporate sales of the seeUthere ASP tool. Led the design of the user interface that continues to this day. Led the first integration of meetings attendee management to online travel booking tools and GDS. Show less

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  Travent - OnVantage distribution EMEA

  Sept 2002 - May 2007

  Managing Director

  www.travent.comSold this company to StarCite May 2007.OnVantage Europe - providing Meetings & Events Management tools for the $200 billion market for corporations and associations, and sourcing tools with full RFP and negotiation systems for customers. We also provide listing services for 40,000 meetings and conference hotels and 30,000 meetings suppliers.

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  StarCite

  May 2007 - Nov 2007

  Europe Sales

  After selling Travent to StarCite, was hired as consultant for 6 months to transition Travent Ltd's assets and customers and consulted with new prospects. Pioneered many aspects of modern Strategic Meetings Management, as documented in this history of the industry's timeline: http://debischolar.typepad.com/files/strategic-meetings-management-the-history-by-debi-scholar.pdf

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  Multiple companies

  Jan 2008 - Apr 2010

  Startup consultant

  Consulted in the launch of Proxio.com (designed and launched social media strategy) and FohBoh.com (created and launched two social media monitoring products).

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  International Rescue Group

  Apr 2010 - now

  Executive Director

  Having spent the previous 12 years pioneering Software-as-a-Service technology, and previously sailed over 22,000 nautical miles, I decided it was time to "give back" and apply my internet and sailing background to creating a new nonprofit organization that could take advantage of both skills.IRG provides support and humanitarian aid to disaster-hit coastal communities. A growing team and we have acquired three sailing vessels for green delivery of resources, two in the Caribbean fleet and one in Mexico Pacific, built a scalable global online initiative to engage the approx. 10,000 cruising yachts and other millions of privately owned vessels around the world to help in humanitarian aid missions.We are changing the way that coastal disaster relief is done, with volunteer crews and donated supplies, already one of the top 100 relief agencies around the world. Show less

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  OotoWeb Inc.

  May 2010 - Nov 2011

  VP Sales

  Developed market and first major sales of an innovative events management system with the first SaaS mobile (smartphone and tablet) capability and integration with social media. Closed multi-millon dollar sale with BI Worldwide, one of the largest global events technology accounts.ootoWeb is a new meetings technology provider, the first to offer a fully featured attendee management tool that integrates with your iPhone and iPad. ootoWeb is created by a veteran team of the meetings industry using the latest technology tools available today. This means that ootoWeb is not just a little better than conventional meetings technology; rather it has the kind of features you expect from the best technologies you use in your daily life. For instance:- It comes with a free iPhone and iPad app so you can be productive in and out of the office- It doesn’t require training. You didn’t go through a 3-day training class to use your iPhone or Blackberry did you? We don’t expect you to memorize training manuals to use ootoWeb either – just watch a 2 minute video and get started! Show less