Ray Garcia

Ray Garcia is the managing director of Buoyant Capital, a global peer advisory think tank addressing the growth challenges of small to medium sized enterprises. The firm coordinates its team of experts to help its clients improve competitiveness through talent management, global market expansion partnership access, technology asset management, capital investment and restructuring. Buoyant Capital was founded in 2000 in New York City and has helped launch several start-up companies and works as an advisor to company founders, CEO’s, and their investors. Ray has over 25 years of experience as a technology entrepreneur, as company CTO co-founder, for four venture-backed companies. Earlier in his career, he worked as an executive for major banks including Citicorp, Republic National Bank (now HSBC), Bank of America, and as a technology consultant to several large US multinational corporations. In 2008, he was elected to serve as an executive in residence at MIT Media Lab. Since 2010 he serves on the advisory board of Baruch College Field Center for Entrepreneurship. From 2011 to 2014, he taught an accelerated course in entrepreneurship at the University of Pisa, Italy, School of Economics, to PhD candidates and International MBA executives with a focus on innovation, technology transfer and venture spin-offs. From 2015 to 2018 he was contracted as business expert for the EU Commission Horizon 2020 SME innovation instrument where he evaluated commercialization grant proposals of technology ventures. He continues to help grow several ventures within his own portfolio where he is an equity owner and co-founder.