CEO, Compassionate Care Advisors & Corunit Media Corp “Purpose and passion. Before fame and fortune.”
Raymond M. Correa Sr.
His career journey began on Wall Street at the “ripe” age of 18. Vice President by 21. Senior Vice President by 24 at a top global investment bank, managing $200+ million. Ray pivoted into the medical industry and became COO of MarijuanaDoctors.com. He scaled sales 600% in just five years, and the company was acquired by Veriheal in January 2022.
Board Member, Design Thinking Programs:Pace University’s Lubin School of BusinessTombolo Institute at Bellevue College
REV · 2017–2022 · MarijuanaDoctors.com · indexed to 100 in 2017▲ +600% · 20 quarters
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600%Revenue growth in five yearsCOO, MarijuanaDoctors.com · 2017–2022
75%+Of the company's clients won by the sales division he builtMarijuanaDoctors.com · from zero
2022Exit orchestratedCompany sold in January
21Age at Vice PresidentLadenburg Thalmann & Co. · SVP at 24
01 / The File
An unusual résumé for a marketing CEO
Most agency founders come out of design or media. Ray came off a Wall Street desk — and it changed every question his companies ask first.
Ray started on Wall Street at 18, passing the Series 7 and Series 63 and becoming a financial advisor at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., an NYSE member firm — adding the Series 65 investment-advisory license and Life & Health insurance licenses shortly after. By 21 he was Vice President. Three years later he was Senior Vice President, inducted into the firm's exclusive President's club and ranked among its top 10 producers for more than half his tenure.
That background shows up in how his companies operate. The opening questions on any engagement are about unit economics — customer acquisition cost, contribution margin, payback period — not mood boards. Traffic is a means. Revenue is the scoreboard.
He went on to Oppenheimer & Co. as Senior Vice President (2005–2009), advising institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, medical-industry executives and physicians, then to UBS Financial Services as Senior Vice President, Wealth Management (2009–2017), where his practice — Correa Wealth Management — raised, managed and advised ultra-high-net-worth individuals, corporations, physicians and hedge funds on several hundred million dollars of assets.
From 2016 he began managing and growing start-ups alongside the practice, and in 2017 crossed the desk for good. As Chief Operating Officer of MarijuanaDoctors.com (2017–2022) he ran day-to-day operations, built the sales division from zero, grew revenue more than 600% in five years and orchestrated the company's sale in January 2022. Carrying a business through the unglamorous middle and closing an exit is the experience clients are actually buying.
Today he is Chief Executive Officer of Corunit Media Corp, a Uniondale, New York growth firm operating since 2017, with strongholds in the two industries where the rules are hardest: finance and healthcare. He also serves as Managing Director of Compassionate Care Advisors LLC, a boutique marketing and consulting firm for the medical field, and since 2020 as Chief Financial Advisor to MJA RND Health Care Network, a biomarker-discovery and personalized-therapeutics research network.
02 / Track Record
Desk to exit, in order
11 positions held — not titles collected. Drag the rail, use the arrows, or press the left and right arrow keys.
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01
1997
Onto the Street at 18
Passes the Series 7 and Series 63 at 18 and becomes a financial advisor at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., an NYSE member firm. Adds the Series 65 and Life & Health insurance licenses shortly after.
02
21
Vice President, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co.
Promoted to Vice President at 21 — a title most people on the desk wait another decade for.
03
24
Senior Vice President, Ladenburg Thalmann
Three years later, Senior Vice President — inducted into the firm's exclusive President's club and ranked among its top 10 producers for more than half his eight-year tenure.
04
2005
Senior Vice President, Oppenheimer & Co.
Investment advisor to institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, medical-industry executives and physicians on the allocation of their assets (2005–2009).
05
2009
SVP Wealth Management, UBS Financial Services
As Correa Wealth Management, raises, manages and advises ultra-high-net-worth individuals, corporations, physicians and hedge funds on several hundred million dollars of assets (2009–2017).
06
2016
Crosses the desk
Begins managing and growing start-ups directly while winding down the wealth practice — trading analyst distance for operator accountability. Leaves banking in 2017.
07
2017
Founds Corunit Media Corp
Launches a boutique, customer-centric growth firm in Uniondale, New York — and takes the Managing Director seat at Compassionate Care Advisors LLC.
08
COO
Chief Operating Officer, MarijuanaDoctors.com
Runs day-to-day operations of the online medical-marijuana referral platform (2017–2022) and builds its sales division from scratch — the division goes on to bring in more than 75% of the company's clients.
09
2020
Chief Financial Advisor, MJA RND Health Care Network
Advises a research network of physicians and scientists building biomarker-discovery and biofeedback technology for personalized therapeutics, plus a registration database for cannabis product delivery systems (2020–present).
10
2022
The exit
Orchestrates the sale of MarijuanaDoctors.com in January 2022, after revenue grew more than 600% in five years.
11
NOW
CEO, Corunit Media Corp
Leads 20+ strategists, marketers, writers and developers across time zones, with strongholds in finance and healthcare.
03 / The Deal
Built it. Ran it. Sold it.
Advice about compounding growth is cheap. This is the one that closed.
As Chief Operating Officer of MarijuanaDoctors.com from 2017 to 2022, Ray owned day-to-day operations in one of the most tightly regulated corners of American healthcare — where advertising rules bite, platforms ban you without warning, and demand is real but hard to reach.
He built the sales division from nothing. It went on to bring in more than 75% of the company's clients, and revenue grew more than 600% in five years.
In January 2022 he orchestrated the sale of the business — the full arc, from the operating seat to a signed deal.
Revenue growth600%
Clients via his sales division75%+
Years to exit5
RoleCOO
OutcomeACQUIRED
REV · 2017–2022 — MarijuanaDoctors.com revenue indexed to 100 in 2017▲ +600% · 20 quarters
Quarter up Quarter down Close line Acquisition · Jan 2022Illustrative shape · endpoints reflect reported +600%
04 / Operating Thesis
How he actually runs things
Five positions he holds regardless of client, sector or budget.
Position 00 — the house rule
“Marketing is a game of chess, not checkers.”
Most agencies answer the last move. Ray plays three ahead — with the data and the bench to back every play. The knight above is running a real tour: every square it lands on, it lands on once.
Position 01
Unit economics before creative
Margin, customer acquisition cost and payback period get asked first. A campaign that cannot survive that arithmetic does not get built, however good it looks.
Position 02
One connected system, not six tactics
Website, SEO, paid media, CRM, reviews and automation run as a single engine. Leads get lost in the gaps between channels, so he removes the gaps.
Position 03
Seniors on the account
The person who sold the work is the person doing it. No junior handoff after the pitch.
Position 04
Regulated by choice
Finance and healthcare are the strongholds — HIPAA-aware, compliance-conscious, client sign-off before anything ships.
Position 05
Partner, not vendor
Understand the business before the keywords. Strategy has to survive contact with reality.
Chief Financial Advisor. A research network of physicians and scientists building biomarker-discovery and biofeedback technology for personalized therapeutics, and a registration database for cannabis product delivery systems.
● Active
04 / 2017 — 2022
MarijuanaDoctors.com
Chief Operating Officer. Ran day-to-day operations of the online medical-marijuana referral platform, built the sales division from zero — it went on to bring in over 75% of the company's clients — grew revenue 600%+ in five years, and orchestrated the sale in January 2022.
◆ Acquired
05 / 1997 — 2017
UBS · Oppenheimer · Ladenburg Thalmann
20 years in finance. Financial advisor at 18; Vice President of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. at 21 and Senior Vice President at 24; Senior Vice President at Oppenheimer & Co. (2005–2009); Senior Vice President, Wealth Management at UBS Financial Services (2009–2017). Series 7, 63 and 65.
“At Corunit our commitment lies in seeking out extraordinary individuals worldwide, constantly striving to provide our respected customers with unparalleled service. The ethos of our company is built upon fundamental principles such as Integrity, Openness, Teamwork, Dedication, and Enthusiasm.”
