- Prior to that, Bill owned Media Tech, a marketing consulting and communications company focused on high-tech markets. He has helped numerous companies around the world develop and execute their business and marketing plans.
- Bill was executive vice president of Crescent Communications, the largest high-tech PR and advertising firm in Atlanta – later acquired by Ketchum Communications.
- He is the former director of marketing and business development at Motorola where he was responsible for U.S. and international marketing, long range planning and acquisitions.
- He was also vice president of marketing for Netran Interactive Commerce, an online grocery shopping company in Huntsville, Alabama, that was later acquired.
- After earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Dayton, Bill spent his early years in California's Silicon Valley, where he held sales management positions with Mountain Hardware, an early developer of Apple Computer peripheral devices, and Texas Instruments.