Brian Ray

As Head of Data & AI for the US & Canada at ATOS, I lead our regional strategy and execution across AI, GenAI, and modern data platform solutions. I focus on scaling enterprise-grade capabilities—including governance, infrastructure, and impactful use cases—to help clients adopt and optimize AI with confidence. I collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and executive leadership to drive measurable transformation, foster innovation, and deliver differentiated value across industries. As a member of the North America Executive Committee, I also help shape our regional growth strategy, key partnerships, and go-to-market execution.

• Led the development and execution of AI solutions for Eviden's Cloud portfolio, collaborating with public cloud partners to align services with client needs. • Spearheaded the technical integration of AI technologies from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure to enhance cloud solutions. • Achieved a significant increase in revenue through the implementation of AI-driven services, solutions, and go to market.

Brian leads Data and AI on the Portfolio Leadership Team supporting and building the roadmap for global Data Science and AI strategy. Partners with business and technology group leaders building and executing the roadmap in accordance to a large matrix of industry, market and customer demands. He is the chief architect for the Cloud GenOps (GenAI) solutions as well as 3 other major products focused on bringing AI to enterprise as a consulting offfering.

Data Science Practice Lead. Manages teams specializing in delivering to enterprise: AI/ML Consulting, Applied Science, and MLOps.

Cognitive Team Lead for Deloitte Consulting LLP's Products and Solutions group. Leading the group’s missing for exploring, modeling, and building real-time cognitive capabilities into products and solutions that solve business problems worldwide. With a multi-disciplinary approach, leads team building models using natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, image recognition, open source or text analytics and more, to allow a higher level of interactions, understandings, and insights. He has deployed a dozen multi-million dollar products touching 100s of clients. Founder of: the Image Recognition Center of Excellence, Machine Learning Document Decomposition Center of Excellence, and member of the Data Science Community of Practices.

Lead the agile software operations with Deloitte's Analytics team in the Enterprise Science division and spearhead its mission of solving complex analytical problems for major businesses worldwide though the power of data science. Built, led and mentored a first-rate team that uses a multi-disciplinary approach of natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, text analytics and open source to offer a clearer picture of the written word to clients. Directing the group’s newest innovation with Deloitte Open Text Classification Engine (DOTCE) to mine unstructured data for increased corporate performance.

Currently full time consultant as a Python/Django Software Developer on the Patient Portal (Medical Record software built on top of Millennium) team for Cerner in Kansas City.

As one of the earliest founding members and as the CEO for the majority of the 14 years, Brian built the community around Python in Chicago. He hosted at least 1 monthly meeting, managed the P&L, founded the mentorship program, and was deemed to host the "best meetings ever," in Chicago.

Before the Textura IPO, and then acquired by Oracle, Brian played a pivotal role in the development of the Textura Payment System, which managed over $3.4 billion in monthly transactions, one of the leading FinTech success stories. He was the principal author of the integration system, connecting Textura with various other payment and accounting systems, and skillfully managed the development team for this product. Brian was actively involved in enhancing features and collaborated closely with the architects to enhance product performance. The system was primarily developed using Python, JavaScript, and SQL. Significantly, Brian pioneered the implementation of a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process, which included automated unit testing, a key innovation in the system's development lifecycle. His efforts in scaling the team were also notable, as he effectively expanded the team's capabilities by sourcing skilled professionals through external referrals. This multifaceted contribution was crucial in advancing the system's efficiency and reliability, reflecting his technical expertise and leadership skills in a high-stakes environment.

Brian established and operated the Data and Digital Printing divisions. He did all the programming, team management, procurement, and led delivery for highly data driven personalized direct marketing production, reporting directly to the Owners (Northwest Mailing Service at the time). As a ambitious leader, Brian developed a strong partnership with USPS and Xerox, driving business for both and became the leading partner in the greater Chicagoland area, providing digital personalization of millions of documents a month for clients like: Abbott (HCLS) and Sprint PCS (TMT).