Ray Hartjen

Writer

Ray Hartjen is a content marketer, writer, musician and songwriter living in Northern California. In a professional career that has spanned parts of five decades, he has pivoted on many occasions, from investment banking to pharmaceuticals, from consumer electronics to SaaS software. One constant throughout his career path, however, has been storytelling.

Ray’s latest project has been writing Me, Myself & My Multiple Myeloma, published by Morgan James Publishing, and available wherever books are sold. It's his second book from Morgan James, joining the best-seller Immaculate: How the Steelers Saved Pittsburgh.

Over the years, Ray has been a frequent source for quotes from the national media on both the consumer electronics and retail industries, and he has spun his fair share of yarn as a contributor to a number of online outlets, including articles for Yahoo, where he published articles about the San Jose Sharks hockey team, and Salesforce AppExchange, where he wrote about sales and marketing.

A cancer fighter every day of the week that ends in a ‘y,’ Ray periodically chronicles his experience as a multiple myeloma patient on his blog at rayhartjen.com. And, with life’s soundtrack constantly playing in his head, he also records and performs with his two-piece acoustic band, the Chronic Padres