Ray Sokola joined the VIP Consortium as Executive Director in 2020.  Sokola has more than 25 years of executive leadership experience in technology and business roles with both fortune 500 companies and technology start-ups. He spent the majority of his career at Motorola, where he advanced to the level of Corporate Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Sokola holds 20 US Patents including three that were named Motorola Patent of the Year. He has decades of experience in innovation leadership, strategic development, and transformational plan execution. Sokola’s industry experience includes telecommunications, electronic component technology, and telematics. Throughout his career he has also served in an advisory capacity in academia, government, non-profits and a variety of industry board positions. Sokola earned his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware.