Ray Carey, CEO, NeoNova Network Services

Ray Carey is the chief executive officer at NeoNova Network Services.

Carey has been involved for the last 10 years with the leading companies providing technology and solutions to the broadband market. In early 2008, while at Azure, he led the investment in NeoNova, and has been on the board and actively involved with the company since that time. While at Azure Capital Partners he was also involved with leading companies in the broadband market, including Broadlight, Calix Networks, Cyan Optics, Vapps Inc. and World Wide Packets.

Carey remains a venture partner with Azure Capital Partners, where he was an investing partner for the last decade. Prior to Azure, he worked at Credit Suisse First Boston & Robertson Stephens, focused on public and private financings and mergers and acquisitions for communications-related technology companies. He provided strategic advice to several companies, including ADC Telecommunications, Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Cyras Systems (acquired by Ciena), Efficient Networks (acquired by Siemens), Juniper Networks, Next Level Communications, Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), Zhone Technologies and many others. He also sits on the board of SlideRocket Inc.

Carey represented the United States, swimming in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., and received his artium baccalaureatus and master of arts degrees from Stanford University.

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