Ray Carter is a licensed Minnesota Business Broker. He has over 20 years experience leading finance functions that facilitate strategy development, new business analysis, and refocusing/turnaround of domestic and international operations. Ray’s financial management approach including deployment of performance metrics received international recognition as a best practice for supporting and driving business strategy.

Prior to joining Sunbelt, Ray served in a number of financial executive positions including several CFO/ controller roles for Fortune 100 company divisions with revenue over $1 billion. In these positions, Ray participated in numerous acquisitions, divestitures, and deals ranging from $50 thousand to $1 billion. While serving as the top cost executive for a $6 billion HVAC corporation he successfully initiated and drove a complexity reduction process to significantly improve profitability and to strategically refocus the company by rationalizing manufacturing, improving supply management, ensuring competitive designs, and pruning the product offering. The article published about this effort was awarded the IMA Lybrand Gold Medal, and the International Federation of Accountants FMAC Article of Merit as it was judged to have, or will be likely to make, a distinct and valuable contribution to the advancement of management accounting.

Ray has a B.A. with emphasis in accounting from Howard University and earned a MBA from the William E. Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. He is a former member of the Turnaround Management Association and has held cost management, cost improvement, and performance measurement seminars throughout the world. Ray Carter is a member of Sunbelt Midwest, with offices in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul helping people buy businesses and sell businesses in Minnesota and the greater Midwest area. Sunbelt Midwest agents are licensed Minnesota Business Brokers. Sunbelt Midwest also has business broker offices in Wisconsin and Illinois.