Ray Wakefield has been in the glass industry since 1977, starting his career at Armalux Glass Industries as a sales representative and moving to Trulite in 1983 as architectural glass manager. He was a director and president of the Insulating Glass Manufacturer’s Association of Canada between 1991 and 2000 and oversaw that association’s merger with the Sealed Insulating Glass Manufacturers Association. Ray has been a member of ASTM International E06 Performance of Buildings task groups and was the chairperson of the Canadian General Standards Board Can12.8 committee for insulating glass. He chaired the ISO TC160 SCWG 4 Insulating Glass Canadian Advisory Committee and was president and governor of the Insulating Glass Certification Council from 2007 to 2011. He was also member of the Canadian Standards Association’s joint A440-11 group developing the North American Fenestration Standard.