R "Ray" Wang

R “Ray” Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research, Inc. Ray’s the co-host and co-founder of the widely watched DisrupTV, a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast. He’s also the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View”. With viewership in 10’s of millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how exponential technologies and new business models impact the enterprise.

Prior to founding Constellation, he was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group and the top revenue generating analyst at Forrester Research for business and IT strategy. Wang has held executive roles in product, marketing, strategy, and consulting at companies such as Forrester Research, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He’s also been a start-up CMO at Personify Inc, a web analytics software startup valued at $500M during the Internet boom.

Since 2005, Ray has delivered hundreds of live and virtual keynotes around the world that are inspiring and legendary. Wang has spoken at almost every major tech related conference, including Salesforce’s Dreamforce, Adobe Summit, IBM Think, HR Tech Conference, Microsoft’s Conferences, Google Next, and the sessions at Davos for various clients.

Wang has held executive roles at institutions such as Forrester Research, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. His best selling book, Disrupting Digital Business, was published by Harvard Business Review Press and his new book about Digital Giants and how they will be formed and regulated "Everybody Wants to Rule The World" will be released worldwide in July 2021 by Harper Collins Leadership.

Wang is well quoted and frequently interviewed in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Cheddar, CGTN, Tech Crunch, ZDNet, Forbes, and Fortune.

Wang has thrice won the prestigious Institute of Industry Analyst Relations (IIAR) Analyst of the Year Award,won the most Innovative Analyst Award in 2018, and has repeatedly been in the #1 or #2 slot in the AR Power 100 list for over 10 years. Ray resides in Silicon Valley when not traveling 500,000 miles a year in the air.