Ray Sidney's Really Brief History

Where did I go to school?

I grew up (mostly) in Storrs, Connecticut. I graduated from the local high school (E.O.Smith) in 1987. My junior year was split between Brookfield High School in Ottawa, Canada and Kaiser High School in Honolulu, Hawaii.
I spent my freshman year of college at Caltech...
...and then transferred to Harvard, from which I graduated in 1991 with a Bachelors degree in Mathematics.
Immediately after my undergraduate education, I went to MIT for graduate school, and obtained a PhD in Mathematics in 1995. My graduate work was actually theoretical computer science-- cryptography, to be more specific. My thesis advisor was the very excellent Silvio Micali.
A long long long time after I got my PhD, in 2013, I entered the inaugural cohort (class of 2014) of the UC Berkeley MBA for Executives Program. So now I have an MBA.

Where have I worked?

Since finishing school, I've worked at the following places:

Trusted Information Systems (now a part of Network Associates), 1995-1996.
D.E. Shaw^*, 1996 and 1998
RSA Labs (the research branch of RSA Security), 1996-1998.
Google, 1999-2003.
Cenzic, 2004.

What do I do now for work?

I am the co-founder of (and eponym for) Big George Ventures, LLC.
I am the principal of The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain.
I have various other investments and such.

^*D.E. Shaw likes to be known officially as "D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P." They're really anal about it, in fact. But I don't feel like calling them that.

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