Ray Taylor is a 19 year wireless industry veteran and most recently served as Executive in Residence at Storm Ventures in Menlo Park, CA. Previously, Ray was Executive Director of the Consumer Multimedia Products group at Verizon Wireless. Having responsibility for both Product Development and Product Management, Ray's efforts delivered a series of industry firsts (first BREW-based downloadable service, GetItNow®; the first MMS service in the U.S.; Mobile Web 2.0; a graphically rich WAP 2.0 portal; the first fully-integrated Mobile IM service; the first 3G services in the U.S. under the VCAST brand; RingBackTones and the introduction of Flash Mobile).
These services now account for billions of dollars in annual revenue. Ray has held both Engineering and Marketing positions within Verizon Wireless and Bell Atlantic Mobile spanning 16 years of service. As a founding member of AlterEgo Networks he helped launch the company in 2000 as Vice President and Wireless Evangelist.
Ray currently serves as an Advisor to several innovative technology companies: Sharpcast, MobileIron, Mobilians International, and Mobideos.
