Ray Cotton

CISO | Cybersecurity, Risk & Operational Resilience | Advisor & Graduate Educator

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 2 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024
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Jan 2024
Wander is the leading travel marketplace for high-quality vacation homes, combining hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service – earning best-in-category guest satisfaction across thousands of locations from coast to coast. Wander Sites now extends this platform to property managers globally, empowering them with proven direct booking technology to own their brand, bookings and guests. With this new product, Wander moves beyond the top 1% of homes to power the next generation of the vacation-rental industry.
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2026
Advisor
Jan 2026
BCV helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work. We invest in B2B software startups from seed to growth across our four domains of Fintech, Commerce, Apps, and Infra. For over 20 years and with over $10B under management, BCV has helped launch and commercialize more than 400 companies, including Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Rapid7, and Redis. BCV has offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, and Boston, and you can follow us on Twitter @BainCapVC.
2024
Investor
Jan 2024
Wander is the leading travel marketplace for high-quality vacation homes, combining hotel-grade amenities, inspiring views, pristine cleaning and 24/7 concierge service – earning best-in-category guest satisfaction across thousands of locations from coast to coast. Wander Sites now extends this platform to property managers globally, empowering them with proven direct booking technology to own their brand, bookings and guests. With this new product, Wander moves beyond the top 1% of homes to power the next generation of the vacation-rental industry.
2018
Graduate Teaching Associate- EMCS 2020, Advanced Topics in Computer Security
Sep 2018
Located in historic Providence, Rhode Island and founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh-oldest college in the United States. Brown is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution comprising undergraduate and graduate programs, plus the Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and the School of Professional Studies. With its talented and motivated student body and accomplished faculty, Brown is a leading research university that maintains a particular commitment to exceptional undergraduate instruction. Brown’s vibrant, diverse community consists of about 6,200 undergraduates, 2,000 graduate students, 490 medical school students, more than 5,000 summer, visiting, and online students, and over 700 faculty members. Brown students come from all 50 states and more than 115 countries. Undergraduates pursue bachelor’s degrees in more than 70 concentrations, ranging from Egyptology to cognitive neuroscience. Anything’s possible at Brown—the university’s commitment to undergraduate freedom means students must take responsibility as architects of their courses of study. Brown University has 51 doctoral programs and 28 master’s programs. The broad scope of options vary from interdisciplinary opportunities in molecular pharmacology and physiology to a master’s program in acting and directing through the Brown/Trinity Repertory Consortium. Around the world, nearly 90,000 Brown alumni are - in the words of Brown’s charter - leading lives of “usefulness and reputation” in every imaginable field of endeavor. Through events around the globe, reunions on campus, career resources, a host of online connections, and other services, the Brown Alumni Association fosters and supports a vibrant alumni community, wherever its members may be.
2017
GREYRALLY
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Jan 2017
2015
Cybersecurity, Risk, Trust and Technology Innovation
Oct 2015
At Capital One, were making things better for our customers and associates through innovation and collaboration. We were founded on the belief that everyone deserves financial freedom—and are dedicated to a world where all have equal opportunity to prosper. Banking is in our DNA, but we are so much more than a bank. We always think about what’s next—and how we can bring our customers the tools needed to improve their financial lives. Your ideas, experiences and skills will help make banking better. You’ll be part of a supportive culture while earning amazing benefits. That’s life at Capital One. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. View our Social Media Community Guidelines https://www.capitalone.com/digital/social-media/