Ray Simonson | LinkedIn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW8EgMx17dg

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Summary

Entrepreneur, tech CEO and business with a history of building high performing teams in companies and on volunteer boards. Simonson has 40 years of senior executive management experience in large and small companies. He also has 4 years’ experience in steam plant operations. Simonson has founded 4 companies raising funding from Angels and VCs.  He has extensive international experience developing and enterprise B2B software. 
He is an enthusiastic but bad golfer and bad skier. Getting better at poker.

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Volunteer Work

Vice President and President WNCC 131 – Queens Place Condo - 2018-Present
www.150queen.ca
Simonson has owned and lived in 4 condos in the last 51 years and served on three condo boards. He built the technology stack for his wife Monica’s condo business in KW in 1995, he brings to the board:

• financial planning 
• electrical, mechanical, plumbing, issues
• technology deployment

At WNCC 131 Simonson is working with the board to catch on maintenance issues caused by COVID delays. They have executed 14 projects and spent $610,000 last year.

CII - Construction Industry Institute. 2010 – 2017
https://www.construction-institute.org
Advisory Board Member & Break-Through Committee Member 

Executive In Residence - Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET) 2004-2008
cbet.uwaterloo.ca/welcome.html

Communitech Board Member and Executive Committee member - 2005 to 2011
www.communitech.ca

Xplor International – Board member six-year, President for three years
www.xplor.com
Collaborated with the executive director to reshape the board, reducing the number of directors by ten. Led the international expansion and eventually raised Annual Conference attendance to 14,000.

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Education

Ivy – Quantum Shift CEO Program Queens – Finance for Non-Financial Execs
U of W – Systems Design Engineering - 3 years.

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Work Experience

Golden Rock Products – Chairperson CEO - January 2005 - Present
Golden Rock is a family owned a Slate quarry in southeastern British Columbia servicing high end builders in BC, Alberta, and the western USA.

Chief Executive Officer Glove Systems Inc. 2018 - Present
Serving the fabrication and construction industries, Glove Systems supplies the world’s best 3D dimensional measurement and comparison platform. Incorporating the latest in advanced technologies and research, Glove Systems 3D fabrication control platform helps project managers and fabricators manage risk, improve quality, and enhance productivity as they craft and deliver the products and assemblies that form part of our crucial industrial infrastructure.

Chief Executive Officer Coreworx Inc. 2007 - 2017
Coreworx helps their customers mitigate schedule and cost risk through the entire capital project lifecycle. Founded in 1997, Coreworx customers manage a portfolio of more than 900 capital projects valued at over $1.2 trillion. Simonson and his team raised 30 million dollars during his tenure. Simonson led the MBO of Coreworx in 2010.

Chief Technology Officer - Software Innovation – 2005 -2006
As Chief Technology Officer for Software Innovation, Ray Simonson is responsible for Software Development, Product Management, and the technology strategy for the company. Software Innovation’s product Coreworx is a portal application for managing documents and project collaboration in the large engineering construction space and is deployed in 25 countries. 

Entrepreneur in Residence - Tech Capital Partners – 2004 2005
Simonson served as the EIR for Tech Capital from early 2004 to Jan 2005. In this role he mentored the technologists in their portfolio of companies and looked at new technology concepts for the partnership.

Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer - CheckFree i-Solutions – 2000 to 2004
As SVP & CTO for CheckFree i-Solutions, Simonson was responsible for Software Development, Product Management, Client Services, and the i-Solutions technology strategy. 

Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, BlueGill Technologies: 1996 - 2000
Simonson was a co-founder of Bluegill Technologies in 1996. He recruited and led the BlueGill development team. They created the leading EBPP software product, which was the first commercial XML based Internet application.

CheckFree bought BlueGill in early 2000 for $250M USD.

Principal Consultant, Ashburnham Group: 1995 - 1996

Information Systems Executive & Senior Officer - The Mutual Group: 1979 - 1995

Technology Consultant, University of Waterloo: 1977 - 1979