Ray is a qualified and experienced professional with extensive ‘hands on’ expertise combined with wide experience of projects implementation, management and administration.  

Ray spent more than thirty years with a blue chip company managing teams of multi skilled staff employed on diverse programmes.  For the past ten years he has worked for the Herefordshire People’s Advocacy Network first as an advocate and for the past 9 years as a  co-ordinator. With the help of volunteer advocates he has helped many older people in Herefordshire to speak out about their concerns and assisted them to solve some of their problems. 

He is fluent in Latvian, a member of the Herefordshire Language Network and takes an active part in meeting with members of the Diversity and Equality organisation. Ray likes to spend his leisure time visiting his family, gardening, renovating his home, undertaking European travel and photography and listening to classical music.