Prior to joining Flagship, Bill served as Senior Vice President, Technology & Corporate Development and CTO of Compaq Computer Corp. Before that, he was with Digital Equipment Corporation for 28 years in various executive and senior technical positions, most recently as SVP Corporate Strategy & Technology and CTO.

Bill is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and has received the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) W. Wallace McDowell Award for outstanding contributions to the Computer Art. He is a past board member of CMGI, holds 16 U.S. patents, and is the author of numerous technical publications. In addition to his role at Flagship, Bill is Chief Technology Officer at Interactive Supercomputing, a Flagship portfolio company.

Bill holds a PhD, MS, and BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.