About Ray East
Hi, I'm Ray.
I'm a Catalyst for AI-Optimized Leadership.
Ray East & a global business movement that is reshaping the future
Ray East is the founder and driving force behind The AI-Optimized Founders Movement—a critical initiative to help non-technical founders, creators and business leaders flourish through the AI disruption that will eliminate most small and medium-sized businesses over the next 3 years.
Ray is an AI strategist, AI automation developer, business strategist, executive coach and keynote presenter. He's spent over 30 years helping Fortune 500 companies and startups leverage cutting-edge technology and business strategy for breakthroughs in innovation. Under his leadership and facilitation, organizations have generated improvements worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
In the last 3 years, Ray has focused exclusively on the intersection of AI and business strategy, empowering non-technical founders, creators and business leaders to completely rebuild their operations around exponential AI capabilities.
Through his AI-Optimized Founder℠ offerings, he's designed transformative experiences that empower brave entrepreneurs to stop tinkering with AI and start implementing AI-optimized business models that position them to flourish in the Age of AI.
Ray's mission (which he actually cares deeply about) is to help visionary leaders transform their businesses with AI-optimized operating models before the increasing AI disruption wipes them out.
Background Info:
Columbia University School of Law: Juris Doctor, 1997
Johns Hopkins University: M.A. in International Relations, 1997
Vassar College: B.A. in Economics
Ray is a former Management Associate at MetLife, an international corporate attorney at White & Case LLP. He also is the former Director of Student Life at The King’s College in New York City and served on the Board of Directors of The CEO Network. He is the author of the book: “Discovering Why People Follow a Leader [The Life Of Manny].”
