Ray.Grainger

Ray Grainger, is the co-founder and CEO of Mavenlink, a leading project management firm. Ray began his career at Accenture, where he spent 17 years honing his expertise in professional services management as Global Managing Partner, consulting for both large enterprises as well as small and medium-sized businesses. During his time at Accenture, he also invested in several technology companies through Accenture Technology Ventures, including enterprise knowledge management vendor InQuira.

After Accenture, he became Executive Vice President of Professional Services and Strategic Alliances at InQuira (acquired by Oracle in 2011), where he met his Mavenlink co-founders, Roger Neel and Sean Crafts.

Ray also currently serves as the Director of Pandexio, a top knowledge-capturing tool software that allows users to select the most imperative facts included in any digital document and streams the facts into a knowledge base.

Ray received the Outstanding Private Company CEO award at the Orange County Tech Alliance’s Annual Innovation Awards in 2015. Mavenlink, the company Ray founded and currently runs is a leading cloud-based application for project management and resource planning. In November 2016, Mavenlink raised $39 million in Series D from Goldman Sachs.

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