Ray Horak

Ray Horak is the President of The Context Corporation (www.contextcorporation.com), an independent consultancy with its world headquarters in Mt. Vernon, WA. Ray has been involved in telecommunications for 40 years, having begun his career with Southwestern Bell and later gaining experience with AT&T and Bell Labs. He moved on as an executive with Continental Telephone, where he later founded CONTEL Tenant Services and served as General Manager of Executone Houston. Ray assumes no responsibility for the fact that most of these companies no longer exist in recognizable form. Ray is an acclaimed consultant, lecturer and writer with a plain-English, commonsense approach to telecommunications. He is the author of the best-selling Communications Systems and Networks (1997, 2000, & 2002). His most recent books for Wiley & Sons are Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook (2007, 2008) and Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary (2007). Ray has written hundreds of articles, white papers, solutions briefs, case studies and columns and currently is the Technology Editor for Telecom Reseller newspaper. He teaches public and private seminars around the world on telecommunications and has extensive experience as an expert consultant/witness in support of telecom-related litigation, largely involving intellectual property matters (trademarks, copyrights and patents) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).