For more than 25 years, Ray Guzman has built, scaled, and exited companies and governed in the boardrooms of financial institutions, universities, and healthcare. He brings that operating record, with AI governance as one sharp credential, to the boards he serves.
Ray Guzman builds and governs businesses. Over a 25-year career he has taken companies from concept to exit, held executive roles inside one of the most complex enterprises ever built, and sat in the boardrooms of financial institutions, universities, and healthcare companies. That combination of founder's urgency and director's discipline is what makes him effective: he understands what management is actually dealing with, not just what the financials say.
The largest credit union in middle Tennessee, where Ray chairs the Strategic Planning Committee, serves on the M&A Committee, and established and chaired the AI Governance Committee to give directors oversight of AI without slowing the institution's ability to compete.
Board of Trustees at the Nashville-based university, where Ray chairs the Finance Committee and serves on the Governance Committee, helping steward the institution's financial strategy and long-term planning.
The AI strategy and commercialization firm Ray co-founded and led as CEO from 2018 to 2026, built into a studio with three realized exits.
One of the nation's largest privately held companies specializing in acquiring and funding the development of medical real estate properties.
Ray's approach in the boardroom is consistent and unflashy: governance is not technical mastery, it is the discipline of asking the right questions, insisting on rigorous answers, and holding management accountable for both. He believes a director is judged on process, not just outcome, and he applies the same discipline to himself, asking each year whether he is still adding value to the board.
Organizations rise to the level of the questions being asked by their board directors.
Distilled from Ray's essays in Thoughts from within the Boardroom.
On AI, Ray's conviction is that directors do not have to master a technology to govern it. The board's job is a strong, frequently refreshed governance process, with AI governed as an extension of enterprise risk management rather than a standalone mystery.
As Chairman and co-founder of SwitchPoint Ventures, Ray built a bootstrapped startup into an AI venture studio with three realized exits in six years. Together with his earlier exit of WPC Healthcare, Ray has led four successful company exits.
Before SwitchPoint, as Chairman & CEO of WPC Healthcare, Ray led a turnaround, transitioned the company to a SaaS predictive analytics platform, and sold it to Intermedix (4x return), later acquired by R1 RCM for $460 million.
Whether you're navigating a transformation, seeking an independent director who has operated at every stage, or building an AI governance framework, Ray brings the perspective to help.
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