Managing Partner of HLM Venture Partners
Mr. Russell T. Ray is a managing partner of HLM Venture Partners. Prior to joining HLM in 2003, Mr. Ray was a managing director and global co-head of Health Care Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he focused on providing strategic and financial advice to life sciences, health care services and medical device companies. Prior to joining Credit Suisse First Boston in 1999, Mr. Ray spent twelve years at Deutsche Bank and its predecessor entities, BT Alex. Brown, and Alex. Brown & Sons, as a managing director and global head of Health Care Investment Banking. He began his career in investment banking in 1982 as a member of the High Technology and Emerging Growth Group at Merrill Lynch. During his investment banking career, Mr. Ray successfully completed over 175 merger and financing transactions for leading health care companies in the United States, Europe and Israel. Mr. Ray is a director of Allergan (NYSE:AGN) and the Friends School of Baltimore. He received a B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy, a B.S. degree in Zoology and Ecology from the University of Washington, an M.S. degree in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from the Wharton School.