Bill has served as Chief Executive Officer and Manager of Innventure since 2021. Previously, he was a co-founder and President of both XL Vision and XL TechGroup, which created the foundational business building methodology upon which Innventure is based, from 1993 to 1999 and 2001 to 2011, respectively. Bill has worked with the key principals of Innventure for over 20 years. He has also served as a CEO of a London Stock Exchange-listed company and has been a director of over a dozen companies. Most recently, Bill was a partner at Bellview Associates at a boutique investment bank focused on converting private companies into employee-owned enterprises from 2019 to 2021. He has over 30 years of experience in company creation and development. Bill holds a B.S. degree in engineering and conducted post-graduate work in applied mathematics at Iowa State University.