Joan Ray's Email & Phone

JOAN RAY, Executive Vice President based in Georgia, joined Elliot Associates in 1992 and has been working in executive recruitment and senior level assignments since 1986. Prior to joining Elliot Associates Inc., Joan had six years of hospitality human resource management experience and six years of hospitality executive search experience. Joan is active in the hospitality industry and is presently on the Advisory Board of The Elliot Leadership Institute. Joan was a Board Member of the Women's Foodservice Forum for nine years and served as Chair of the Executive Development Committee, Chair of the Membership Committee and Vice Chair of the Endowment Committee. Joan was the 2002 Recipient of the Women's Foodservice Forum President's Award. She has been an Adjunct Instructor at the Art Institute of Atlanta's Culinary School, a panelist at the Multicultural Foodservice Hospitality Alliance's 2005 Symposium, a guest speaker at Council of Hotel and Restaurant Trainers' National Convention and National Restaurant Association's Marketing Executive Group's Fall Conference, and is a former Member of the American Culinary Federation and the American Society for Training and Development. She is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She and her husband, Robert and their two dogs, Wally and Zoe live north of Atlanta, Georgia.