Ray Bradbery

Ray Bradbery Ray is PTG Global’s Chief Operating Officer. His business experience includes business and information technology strategy, global marketing, establishing business in off-shore markets, commercialising software, change management and operations management.

While on the technology side, he's experienced in application lifecycle management, systems programming, application programming (Assembler, Pascal, HTML, PHP, JAVA. C++, JavaScript), software as a service, and integration of legacy systems. Ray holds an MBA from Macquarie University.

His speciality is growing technology businesses, driving sales and service and opening overseas markets for global expansion.

Ray’s focus for PTG is the growth of existing service lines and to diversify revenue streams through additional products and services, notably our prototyping / simulation software XPDesigner.

Ray is also overseeing the transformation of PTG into a business technology consultancy offering design, development and delivery of innovative business process and technology solutions.

Previously, Ray has held the positions of:

Managing Director Australia / New Zealand for E2E technologies
E2E technologies specialises in integration of disparate systems using model driven integration. The integration is achieved by a unique process of execution of UML without the need to write code.
General Manager, Asia Pacific Operations for Seagull Software Inc

Seagull Software specialises in harnessing the power of legacy applications by providing technologies that allow rapid integration of systems and the provision of modern interfaces.
Vice President Asia/Pacific for Rogue Wave Software Inc, Boulder, Colorado
Vice President Asia/Pacific Borland Software Corporation, Scotts Valley California
Borland Software is one the world’s premier development technologies companies. Ray Ooversaw the launch of JBuilder, Kylix (for cross-platform development) and the Borland Application Server in Asia Pacific while in this role.
Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand for Borland Software (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW
While MD, Ray launched Borland Delphi , C++ Builder, InterBase, Borland Corba, Borland AppCenter, dBase for Windows in Asia Pacific

Prior to this, Ray spent 23 years with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia holding roles as diverse as:

Executive Manager, Operations Planning, Information Services Department
- Alignment of business and technology for the Bank
- Advisor to vendor community on the technology needs to Banking industry
- Procurement of hardware and software for the Bank
Executive Manager, Change and Problem Management, Information Services Department
CIO of Papua New Guinea Banking Corporation on secondment from CBA

Ray is an active member of the business community, including:

Founding Member and Past President of Storage Technology User Group
Past Committee Member of Australasian Share Guide (IBM Users Group)
Past Board Member of Australia Information Industry Association (NSW Branch)
Past Board Member of Click On Australia Pty Ltd
Past Board Member of Australian eCommerce Pty Ltd
Past Board Member of Borland Software Australia Pty Ltd
Past Director, Rogue Wave Software Pty Ltd
Past President, Cronulla Chamber of Commerce, and,
Member of the Cronulla working party of the Restaurant and Catering Association.

Ray is also a part-time university lecturer at Charles Sturt University in faculty of Business and Commerce.

Ray is married to Nici and has a daughter, Georgia, as well as a son and daughter from a previous marriage.