OVERVIEW
Rob Wray is a talented, multifaceted businessman/Admiral who wants to add significant value to a commercial enterprise.
He is an ADROIT LEADER, having run civilian businesses, military organizations, and community organizations ranging in size from 2 to 15,000 people. He has led in peace and in war, in a half-dozen industries. He has a masters from Georgetown in leadership, has written on leadership, and lectures on leadership.
Rob is a TECHNOLOGIST, comfortable in IT, in manufacturing, in energy, in construction. He is a licensed professional engineer, and was given the Navy’s highest qualification in nuclear engineering. He holds a technical patent, and ran companies in technical manufacturing. At SAIC he managed over a hundred IT technicians and software engineers.
He is a COMMUNICATOR. He writes often and well. He speaks effectively in groups large and small. He knows how communication can motivate an organization to help it achieve more. He has an uncanny knack for making large, complex issues seem more straightforward, more doable.
He can MARKET and SELL. He has sold hotel rooms, political candidates, consulting, bank products, circuit boards, vacation homes, energy services, and electrical devices, as well as complex ideas and programs. He can close, face-to-face, in Fortune 500 board rooms.
He is a CHANGE AGENT. Numerous times in his career he’s been brought into troubled chaotic circumstances, and asked to lead the organization home to safety. He understands both the science and the art of implementing change among humans.
He is an NO-NONSENSE BUSINESSMAN. Rob gets it: at the end, it’s about the numbers. Inventory. Cash Flow. Receivables. Debt-to-Equity. Return on investment. Tax implications. He knows that success in business requires vision and process, emotional intelligence and hard-nosed bookkeeping, motivation and discipline. But ultimately, there’s only one scorecard: the P&L.
Finally, he is a GOOD GUY. His many 360-degree feedback reports show that his bosses, his peers, and his subordinates like him and respect him. They may not always agree with him, but they trust him. They enjoy his humor and his style in the workplace. (They put up with his Red Sox references.) His teams are generally happy, congenial, busy, and productive.
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