Ian Bray

Founder/CEO

Twitter: @IanABray

Ian Bray is a seasoned IT professional with over ten years experience in operating in the largest and most complex IT environments in the world. Ian has navigated the path between technical and commercial aspects of the industry throughout his career- successfully transitioning from a technical expert to a thought leader.

Ian's prior roles have included being the founding member of the Professional Services unit for an Enterprise Software Company (AppSense), founding new practice on Client To Vendor relationship management in Financial Services through to becoming a Product Manager. As a Product Manager, his portfolio included innovating with emerging and new technologies and making them commercially viable. He has brought products to market that contributed double-digit growth in their first quarter and revitalized the commercial fortunes of a legacy product to double-digit revenue growth in his first year in charge of the product.

Ian is an avid technologist, traveler, and people watcher. When he's not working, Ian is passionate about literature, music and diving, and to furthering the cause of Autistic Spectrum Disorder awareness. He is also a one man Pub Quiz Team and quite proud of his capacity to remember useless information.

Dr. Patrick Stewart Bray, Ph.D.

Co-Founder/Chairman

Dr. Patrick Stewart Bray is a veteran, successful serial entrepreneur and executive with 40 years experience in Business. Graduating with an Honours Degree in Chemistry from the University of London in 1968, and following this up with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of London in 1972, Dr. Bray has worked across numerous industries during his long career.

He successfully transitioned from the Chemical industry in 1978 to the newly emerging Information Technology market, was a Managing Director UMP before becoming a member of the board of ICI ImageData with responsibility for Marketing in 1988, as well as founding a successful IT distributor which he sold in 2003.

Dr. Bray is also a published author, writing the book 'Total Innovation' in 1993- a book articulating the path to successfully innovating and identifying new Products with strong commercial potential and eliminating less promising ideas early. The Financial Times commissioned and published 'Total Innovation.'

When Dr. Bray is not working, he spends his time sailing, traveling, and experimenting/tinkering/breaking things. He is an avid horticulturist, loving grandfather, and criminally bad joke teller.

Irina Meacham

Co-Founder/Community Director

Irina Meacham completes the founders of Trubador as Community Director. As a freelance artist, she has acted as her business manager of its product: the art. After years of first-hand experience as a freelance musician in New York City, she took an interest in expanding the confining limits of freelancing, and from a collaboration with Ian Bray, Trubador evolved to address the shortcomings she had seen as a freelancer- both as someone offering her services and from the other side.

A first-generation Romanian-American, her heritage greatly influenced her musical education by attending George Enescu School of Music in Bucharest, Romania. She completed her studies at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and a Master's degree at Florida State University. She is an active performer, specializing in opera coaching and opera rehearsal playing. As part of her work, Irina has traveled the world and collaborated with world-class opera companies such as Palm Beach Opera, Chicago Summer Opera and Nashville Opera.