Ray Scippa

Ray brings to the Company extensive executive management experience and creative capabilities.
Most recently Ray held the position of Vice President Public Relations for Pennzoil-Quaker State Company, where he was responsible for the company's internal
and external communications, including media relations, marketing communications, employee communications and community relations.

Since graduating from San Francisco State University with bachelor degrees in English/Creative Writing and Anthropology, Ray has followed two diverse career paths in academia and business. As an archaeologist and anthropologist from 1981 to 1987, Ray lived and worked in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Mexico. Specializing in photography, writing and publishing, he participated in projects funded by San Francisco State University, Amherst College, the National Science Foundation, Earthwatch International and Brigham Young University.

During a two-year stint in Belize, he produced Belize Speaking: An Oral
History of Independence. From late 1982 until 1988 he was a contributing
editor to the New World Archaeological Foundations Paper Series and his
field and laboratory photography appeared in numerous scientific and
scholarly journals. He made major contributions to books published on
several pre-classic archaeological sites.

Upon Ray's return to the United States in 1988, he was hired as a Staff
Writer for Continental Airlines Corporate Communications Department,
where he wrote press releases and contributed articles and photography to employee publications and the monthly in-flight magazine. He had 10 years
of communications and media relations experience with Continental Airlines, where he rose to the position of Corporate Communications Director.
Pioneer Publications published his book, Point to Point: The 60-year History
of Continental Airlines in late 1994. Two years later Pioneer commissioned
him to write another aviation history, Mexicana: North America's First Airline, commemorating the Mexican airline's 75th anniversary.