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- Bingham Ray (1 October 1954 – 23 January 2012) was an American independent film executive.
- Bingham Ray was an American independent film executive.
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Ray Bingham
Title: Co-Founder and Partner
Company: Canyon Bridge
Location: Woodside, CA
Educational Background
- MBA, Harvard Business School
- BS, Economics, Weber State University
Weber State University Service & Honors
- National Advisory Council Member
- Honorary Degree Recipient, 2006
Biography
Ray Bingham is an experienced technology leader, investor, and board director with a distinguished career spanning over 35 years in high-tech, chemical engineering, and hospitality real estate development. From 1993 to 2005, Bingham served in various leadership roles at Cadence Design Systems, including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, and Executive Chairman. During his tenure, he expanded the company's technology leadership through 19 acquisitions and spearheaded Cadence's global expansion into emerging markets such as China, India, and Russia.
Bingham has also made significant contributions to education and community service. He is the founder of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving educa
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Backstory
Soon after the tragic and untimely death of my friend Bingham Ray during the Sundance Film Festival in 2012, I began interviewing people who knew him best—his wife Nancy, friends from school, college and bar-tending days, his former acting teacher, his employer at the Bleecker Street Cinema, his trusted business partner at October, his boss at UA, filmmakers and close pals. People were raw and fragile but unfailingly generous.
A long-form magazine style piece, based on these interviews, was the original idea but when I tried to pull it together, it didn’t hold. Writing about Bingham in the past tense when he was still very much alive in people’s hearts felt wrong, and as if I was foreshortening perspectives on his life. I hesitated: the back-story was missing and I'd dodged a bigger question that shadows Bingham's journey. He had described himself as a “vagabond explorer on a continuous adventure”; that was key, suddenly his unruly ghost was messing with my head and tearing up my well-laid, pedestrian plans.
When I was in New York for Bingham’s memorial se
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Bingham Ray
Bingham Ray (1 October 1954 – 23 January 2012) was an American independent film executive.
Career
He was a co-founder of indie film distributor October Films and president of United Artists from 2001 to 2004. At the time of his death, he was executive director of the San Francisco Film Society.[1][2]
Legacy
As noted by the Independent Feature Project's Gotham Independent Film Awards, "New to the Gotham Awards this year [2012] is the Bingham Ray Award, an award bestowed upon an emerging filmmaker whose work exemplifies a distinctive creative vision and stylistic adventurousness that stands apart from the mainstream and warrants championing. The goal is to bring additional attention to new artists whose work could be seen as conceivably joining the ranks of filmmakers championed by industry veteran Bingham Ray, who died in January."[3]
The 39th Telluride Film Festival in 2013 was dedicated to him.[5] The 2012 film Stand Up Guys starring Christopher Walken and Al Pacino is dedicated to him.[6]
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