With a designer’s eye, a storyteller’s soul, and a marketer’s targeted goal-setting, I firmly believe in the power of strategically-crafted creative.

My name is Brock Ray. I’m a creative director and marketing strategist with a passion for user experience design and a deep interest in behavioral psychology. For 20 years, I’ve been transforming complex business needs into intuitive, human-centered design solutions that drive results. Every day, I blend my expertise in UX/UI design with strategic marketing, ensuring that my work not only meets user needs but also exceeds business objectives.

Originally hailing from Washington, D.C., I now live in Minnesota with my wife, Jennifer, and our children, Collin and Bonnie. When I’m not immersed in developing strategic marketing solutions, I can be found enjoying blues music, community theater, and engaging in community service projects with the Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Club.

My Strengths Finder Top 5

Strategic: Enjoy creating alternative ways to proceed; can quickly spot relevant patterns and issues.
Ideation: Fascinated by ideas and able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Learner: Great desire to learn and want to continuously improve; the process of learning excites me.
Achiever: Lots of stamina; a hard worker; takes great satisfaction from being busy and productive.
Communication: Find it easy to put thoughts into words; good conversationalist and presenter.

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Creative Director Brock Ray

One of Brock's greatest assets is his ability to learn and understand niche products, like software for the energy industry, and the ability to strategize product positioning and messaging.

Jessica Widman

Associate Marketing Manager

Coloplast

A combination of this intelligence plus skilled application of market strategy provides the edge any sales or development organization needs in today's dynamic and competitive market.

Joan Collins

Principal, Commercial Energy

ICF International

Brock brings a level of business class to the design field that is hard to find.

Scott Roschi

Creative Director

Landscape Structures

Brock's passion towards his work exceeds everyone's expectation. He is truly a pleasure to work with.

Mike Jabbar

Director, International Business Development

OATI

Brock is a strong, approachable leader who inspires all those who work with him to step up to the bar in their own work, and works very well as part of a larger team.

Alison Beattie

Director of User Experience

Target

Brock's skills in design are matched with a keen marketer's viewpoint.

Lynn Strand

Principal

Outside Knowledge LLC

If you are looking for a genuine, hard-working, creative and smart stand up guy, Brock is your man.

Drew Schmitz

President

Blue Octopus LLC

Brock is a true professional who never faulted in his commitment to help us create and implement a marketing campaign that became a huge success.

Andy Culver

Chief Operations Officer

Boomerang

Brock has a wonderful eye for good design, poses excellent interpersonal relationship skills, doesn't flinch at tough deadlines, and always remains positive and poised under pressure.

Robert Arnold

Director of Recruiting Services

Celarity

I recommend Brock to any company looking to lead their industry by way of creative design, marketing and innovation.

Chris Nelson

Oracle Practice Director

Traust Consulting