Ray Cao is the Co-Founder and CEO of Loose Button. Loose Button is built on the philosophy that successful businesses are built by exceptional people.
Previously, Ray was the president of the Impact Entrepreneurship Group, now Canada’s largest youth-run entrepreneurship organization. In his role as president, he founded the Global Entrepreneurship Week Canada campaign. Ray has dabbled with the mix of working for companies as well, from growing a mobile startup called Polar Mobile to working as a trader on Wall Street at Barclays Capital. He realized, however, that it was much more fun building companies.  When he is not working on Loose Button, Ray is involved as a board member for the Impact Entrepreneurship Group (http://bit.ly/bQHhfR) and is an advisor to VeloCity (http://bit.ly/22HL) a leading technology incubator run by the University of Waterloo. Ray is also an advisory board member for New York’s Entrepreneur Week. He is a member of the DiverseCity Steering Committee (http://bit.ly/abZymf) which consists of prominent individuals in the Greater Toronto Area who recognize the value and potential of diversity in leadership for the region’s social and economic prosperity. Ray is a past recipient of Waterloo’s Top 40 Under 40 award.  Ray holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
