Ray joined the Helmsley Charitable Trust in April 2012 as the Office Operations Assistant. In November, he began working in the Finance department as a Finance Assistant. His principal roles and responsibilities include maintaining accounts payables, grant payments, maintaining relationships with vendors, and other ad hoc projects.
Before joining Helmsley, Ray was a bookkeeper and administrative assistant at various companies and the general manager and bookkeeper of a restaurant in New York. Ray has a Bachelor of Science in accounting and business administration from the Universidad Catolica de Asuncion in Paraguay.