Ray Prado

Ray Prado has over a decade of experience in sales and business development roles within the technology industry. Ray served as the Sales Director at Groq starting in 2022. Prior to that, they worked at Intel Corporation from 2017 to 2022, where they held the position of N. America Business Development Manager, Automotive Segment. In this role, they focused on developing FPGA business within the Automotive market, with a specific emphasis on AI sensing and perception for autonomous vehicles. Before joining Intel, Ray worked at Altera from 2011 to 2017, initially as a Regional Sales Manager and later as a Sr. Manager, Field Application Engineering. Notably, they led a team of engineers and played a key role in driving the adoption of FPGA platforms within Financial Trading Services marketing reference solutions.

Ray Prado attended the University of Notre Dame from 1991 to 1995, where they pursued a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.