Ray Dunn

Managing Director
Dry Valley Advisors, LLC

Ray is the Managing Director of Dry Valley Advisors, LLC which provides strategic shareholder services consulting to corporate issuers and shareholder industry service providers. He was formerly an SSA Vice President and retired as Director of Shareowner Services for The Southern Company in 2008. His responsibilities at Southern included management of the registered in-house transfer agent, the Company's direct stock purchase plan, director compensation processing, retail investor relations, and proxy production and distribution and Annual Meeting operations.

While at Southern, he was involved with the Savannah Electric stock exchange, development of an unclaimed property reporting program, and installation of the CSSII stock processing system. In 1994, he managed Southern's 2 for 1 stock split and in 2001 managed the operational process resulting in the spin-off of Mirant Corporation.

Dunn holds a BS degree from the University of Tennessee, an MA from the University of South Florida and an MBA from Georgia State University. He has earned a NASD Series 7 General Securities license. He is married, has one son, and enjoys golf, snow skiing, and travel.