Raymond Gunn

	BS Management Chairman and CEO MexAmerica

Profile

Raymond Gunn is the Chairman and CEO of MexAmerica.

Raymond Gunn previously founded Wingspan Partners LLC to assist entrepreneurs realize their potential by surrounding them with experienced financial, operating and sales and marketing resources committed to their success. The principals of Wingspan Partners have spent their careers building concept technologies into small niche global companies with novel and proprietary solutions that have disrupted current market capabilities or advanced ideas to extend their applications.

Ray has 26 years of broad industry experience as a financial and operating executive, including over the last 18 years acting as the principal financial and strategic architect in the successful formation, funding, growth and ultimate sale/IPO of 10 early stage ventures/companies.

As president and CEO of Clarity Technologies, Inc, he assembled experienced management and world class technology teams to develop, commercialize and create a brand for Clarity's proprietary voice enabling CVC® “Clear Voice Capture” software technology. His team developed Clarity into one of Michigan's fastest growing technology companies, earning 9 prestigious industry awards, including the distinguished “2004 Technology Company of the Year” award in Michigan.

Ray led Clarity into alliances, joint ventures and distribution relationships in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, and throughout the U.S. He raised over $25 million and led Clarity's revenue growth to over 150% in 2004. Ray identified and developed key strategic alliances with possible suitors and guided Clarity and its stakeholders through the successful sale of the business to publicly held CSR in Cambridge, England, who retained every one of the 35 employees.

Previously, Ray was executive vice president and CFO of Somanetics Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTS), a publicly held medical device manufacturing company with proprietary signal processing technology that noninvasively and continuously monitored the oxygen levels in the brain. He joined Somanetics as a privately held company in its development stage, raised $52 million in 10 public and private transactions and guided Somanetics through the IPO/FDA processes. He contributed to building the team and commercializing the Company's first product and further identified and acquired a complementary technology that is generating revenue for Somanetics today.

Prior experience includes funding and commercializing a hi-tech manufacturing plant floor product-line as a senior financial/operating officer with Automation Data Corp., a privately held automotive supply company and president/COO of a subsidiary of Central Holding Company, where he co-founded and ran 5 of the first HUD approved mortgage banking joint venture programs in the Country. Earlier in his career, Ray was engaged by the FHLBB of San Francisco to lead the successful turnaround of a small S&L in Nevada. He was a financial manager with Pulte Home Corporation and practiced as a CPA with Deloitte & Touche as an emerging business specialist.

Ray serves as a member of the Board of Visitors for Oakland University's School of Business Administration, the Boards of Directors of WonderPizzaUSA., Strategic Financial Services, Strategic Financial Bancorp, Inc., and is a member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Accounting Council. He is a former Vice Chair for the John F. Kennedy Small Business Caucus and former Board Member of Digital Detroit, one of the leading non-profit organizations focused on energizing Michigan's high-tech economy, the Association for Corporate Growth and the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, a trade organization representing small medical device manufacturers. Also, in 2006 Ray was named a Leader and Innovator by Grant Thornton and Lawrence Technological University and in 1992 Ray was recognized as an influential business leader in Crain's 40 under 40.

Ray received his undergraduate degree in Management at Oakland University and pursued his Masters in Taxation degree at Walsh College.

Ray and his wife Lisa currently reside in Shelby Township, MI.