Publisher named to board of directors

Ray Schey

Ray Schey, publisher of the Phoenix Business Journal, is one of the newest members of the Arizona Technology Council’s board of directors.

In his role as publisher, Schey is responsible for managing all day-to-day aspects of the publication, which reaches more than 60,000 business professionals in the Phoenix area. He was promoted to the role in May 2014 after serving as director of advertising at the Milwaukee Business Journal. Both newspapers are owned by American City Business Journals based in Charlotte, N.C.

Earlier, Schey was the director of advertising at the Rochester Business Journal. To that point, most of his career had been spent in sales and sales management in radio and television.

Currently, he is a member of Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Greater Phoenix Economic Council’s Velocity committee. Schey also serves on the board of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

He received a Bachelor of Arts from St. Bonaventure University in journalism. Schey is married to wife Becky and has two children.