dirk wray

board member

Dirk Wray is a builder and financier of entrepreneurial companies that generate value. He has extraordinary broad investment, project finance and trade-based banking experience globally. Typical company builds involve international structures with large scale long-term risk mitigated supply agreements, EPC contracts and product off-take agreements. Mr. Wray’s family office develops businesses that focus their private equity on food, water, energy, minerals and renewables.


Mr. Wray's expertise is successfully managing the scaled growth of newer commercially proven technologies that require capitalizations to scale. These skills include: capital formation (both domestic and international), executive recruitment, banking, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate strategy, organizational leadership and organizational cultural development and management. This expertise has been gained through his dealings in over 40 countries and positions in corporate finance with Salomon Brothers Inc, Director of Finance for Marriott Corporation and Director of Finance and Development for The Residence Inn Company (now a subsidiary of Marriott Corporation). Mr. Wray's real estate experience includes the financing and or developing of over 70 hotels worldwide, 34 long term health care facilities, 22 logistics and trucking terminals, as well as, financing mixed use real estate projects in developing countries.


Mr. Wray received his BA from Michigan State University, his MBA from Southern Methodist University and his MIM from The American Graduate School on International Management (Thunderbird). Mr. Wray has also held various security, insurance and real estate licenses.

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