Ray Knight, Chief Envisioneer
Officer of a business development agency incorporating a business
consulting / strategic business planning practice BraynTrust,
an integrated and guerilla marketing agency KnightWorks,
Inc., and a principal/partner in RaynMaker, Inc.
Knight has over 25 years of business development,
marketing, sales, customer/vendor service experience in the U.S.,
Canada, Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, Latin America, Europe
and Australia. He has led teams in Senior Executive positions
in both privately-held and public companies (CMO. - Concept! Miami,
Quest Technologies and Touch Miami/IATM and SVP Interval International/Worldex).
Combined with his entrepreneurship activities as a founder and
President of Knight International, Inc., his
experience has been amassed in over 26 different industries in
English & Spanish.
Knight is the current Miami Chapter Chair of
the premier association of senior marketing executives in the
country, MENG and recent national executive board member for 2
years. He is a regular speaker and publisher on marketing, sales
and business development topic and is a graduate of both Georgetown
University and the College of William and Mary. Additional information
at www.RayKnight.com
José Cruz, principal
/ partner in RaynMaker, Inc., studied Business
Administration at the Colégio Infante D. Henrique (“The
Navigator”) a Technical Institute specialized in sciences
and world languages in Portugal. Cruz speaks and has successfully
acquired and serviced clients in English, Spanish, Portuguese
and French.
In 1979, Cruz was recruited by Interval International,
Inc. in Miami, Florida, the worldwide giant in the timesharing
exchange business with the specific responsibility to expand worldwide
awareness and increase market penetration through new client acquisition
and servicing existing clients in various countries. In recognition
for his achievements, Cruz was named “Executive of the Year”
in 1987 in Miami and in the same year was granted the “Hernán
Cortés” award in México City, for his activity
in tourism and timesharing developments in México.
In 1997, Rincón Club, an Argentinean developer,
marketer and operator of luxury hotel properties in Argentina
and Uruguay, recruited Cruz as a partner and Director. He developed
and implemented the business plan, incorporating overall strategy,
pricing, sales methodologies, marketing, advertising, customer
service and all audio visual and graphic collateral materials.
Sales averaged US$2 million per month until the year 2000.
