With 25+ years experience in the telecommunications industry, Dr. Ray Mota brings a talent for complex technical and critical thinking and provides strategic direction, sharp analysis, and expert advice on networking issues, specializing in design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
Prior to founding ACG Research, Dr. Mota worked for Aberdeen Group, ManageAll, Micros-To-Mainframes, Advanced Technology Group, Eastman Kodak and the IRS. As a CTO, he designed, implemented and supported complex trading floor systems and large Frame Relay and ATM networks.
He also provided training on Sniffer, HP Advisor protocol analysis tools, and MPLS architectures. Ray has also developed cloud applications and has a software patent attributed to him.Routinely called upon to speak as a guest lecturer throughout the country, Ray is recognized as an expert in topics relating to networks, managed services, cloud computing, operational efficiency, and business modeling. He has been the keynote speaker for Internet World (Amsterdam), E-Services World (Paris), Business Journal Summit, and Hewlett Packard Executive 2000.
He has also been a presenter at the Columbia Business School. His commentaries and analyses have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Telecom Magazine, MSNBC, CNN Money, Forbes, Fortune, NY Times, and the SF Chronicle. He serves as a board member on the Telecom Executive Exchange, an alliance on service provider business models and service creation; and Cool Trade, an online trading system.
He recently was recruited for a position on the prestigious National Energy and Sustainability Institute board, a collaborative effort by MIT, Stanford University, and President Obama's Energy Council.
Ray is also a founding member of MIT Enterprise Forum of Phoenix.The forum's goal is to build a community, connect technology entrepreneurs with capital, resources, employees, and industry experts and to ultimately make the commercialization of technology faster and easier.
Ray holds seven amateur baseball World Series titles and has coached at the Arizona Diamondback Training Center. His successful baseball career inspired him to write Maximum Ability, (Lulu.Com, 2005), which focuses on mind power and using the cognitive abilities involved in sports to achieve excellence in not only the athletic arena but also in business fields and in other aspects of a person's life. Ray donates 100 percent of the proceeds to Motavation Group, which organizes sporting events for sick children, (http://www.lulu.com/content/110670).
In October 2000, HispanicBusiness.com selected Ray, with other notables Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs and Alex Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers, as one of the top one hundred most influential Hispanics in the United States.
Ray lives in Gilbert, Arizona, with his wife Tonya and daughter Savannah and son Ray Ray. He is an avid fund raiser, supporter of and participant in activities that promote cancer research.
Contact Ray at rmota@acgresearch.netOffice:408-200-0967