Raymond T. Grant

Creative Economy Consultant, Raymond T. Grant, Ltd.

Raymond T. Grant has enjoyed a multi-faceted career in entertainment and the arts, education, business, cultural tourism and Olympic movement planning. Grant has produced major events in Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and New York's Central Park. Since 1989, Grant has consulted with major entertainment companies and cultural providers including the Walt Disney Company and Carnegie Hall Corporation, among others. His consulting work focuses on celebrity programming and creative economy planning and policy. From 1998-2003, Grant served as Managing Director of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002. During the same time, he was Artistic Director of the 2002 Cultural Olympiad, the Olympic Arts Festival for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. With its wide range of signature events, the 2002 Olympic Arts Festival, an integral part of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, attracted more than 400,000 world visitors and local audiences to its celebrity performances, exhibitions, community programs, and special events during the Olympic Winter Games of 2002. Grant, most recently, was the co-executive producer of a major gathering of Olympic cultural directors to discuss the future of cultural trends of the Olympics at the University of Mainz (Germany.) From 2003-2005, Grant served as executive director of film legend Robert Redford's Sundance. As head of creative development, Grant reported directly to Robert Redford and led all programming, conferencing and retreats at Sundance and a wide-ranging commissioning and artist-in-residence program. Under Grant’s leadership, Sundance was awarded significant environmental, arts, restaurant, resort, hotel, tourism, and ski area awards. During his professional career, Grant served in New York City as General Manager of the American Symphony Orchestra from 1985-1991 and as Director of the Tisch Center for the Arts of the 92nd Street Y from 1991-92. Grant is a native New Yorker. From 1993-96, Grant headed the Performing Arts and Film programs of the Disney Institute, a division of the Walt Disney Company and a project of Walt Disney Imagineering. There, he directed a 365-day per year performance schedule featuring celebrities and artists in the fields of music, theatre, dance, film and television, science and architecture. He also launched a major artist-in-residence program and facilitated the development of three multi-million dollar performance facilities. As part of his consulting work, Grant currently serves as director of programming for Promontory – The Ranch Club, a 7,000 acre, 10-square mile, recreational second-home and private mountain community in Park City, Utah. Promontory is a signature property of the Pivotal Group whose holdings have included the Century Plaza Hotel & Spa, the St. Regis Hotel, and the Ritz-Carlton Phoenix. Grant holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Kansas - School of Music and a master's degree in Arts Administration from New York University, the terminal degree in the field. A subject of biographical record in Who’s Who in America, Grant has served as a panel member for the National Endowment for the Arts and the State of Florida's Division of Cultural Affairs. He has lectured at Indiana University, The Hartt School of Music, Virginia Tech, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.