Ray brings a wide range of financial and commercial experience to the board from his previous roles, which most recently included Chief Operating Officer for UCL Qatar, where he set up the new campus. Prior to that, he was Director of Estates Administration for University College London (UCL) and Managing Director of multi-national subsidiaries in Nigeria, Egypt and Zambia. Ray is a Non-Executive Director of the Futures Housing Group and served as a Lay Member on the Board of West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group. He is Trustee of a Tanzanian charity. He is a Chartered Accountant and chairs the Trust's Finance Committee.