Gene W. Ray

Gene Ray earned the master’s (1962) and doctoral (1965) degrees from UT in physics. He then worked for the Aerospace Corporation, in San Bernardino, California, then moved on to head a team of civilian and military scientists at the Pentagon. After two and one-half years there, he went back to California to work for Science Applications International Corporation as executive vice president and a member of the board of directors. In 1981 he left SAIC (he says he “had an argument with his boss and lost”) and founded Titan Corporation with a couple of personnel from SAIC. Within two weeks of opening shop, the group landed a $560,000 contract from GTE to design a communications system, and the company grew to one earning in excess of $1 billion a year. He continued to serve as chairman, president, and chief executive officer until, in accord with his planned retirement, Titan was acquired by L-3 Communications on July 29, 2005. Ray left at that point, joining the board of Global Secure Corporation as chairman. Global Secure, founded in 2003, provides homeland security products and services.

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  • Date of Last Update October 15, 2018