Ray joined BEN as Head of Marketing in March 2011. He has spent almost his entire career in the automotive industry having first spent eight years on the operational side of the retail sector before specialising in marketing. For the past 22 years prior to joining BEN, Ray was Group Head of Marketing for two of the UK's leading multi-franchise dealer groups.

Married with a grown up son, Ray was born and grew up in Falkirk (midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh). Outside work, Ray has a keen and longstanding interest in musical theatre, both as a player and director, and plays piano ("not good, but loud").

Outwith family however, Ray lists his two passions as marketing and the automotive industry and so as a member of BEN's Executive Management Team, Ray is particularly delighted that his primary focus is on raising awareness of the scope and breadth of BEN's work amongst members of the industry which, as he puts it, he loves being part of and to which he himself owes so much.