User:Wkkendall

A Strategic Planning & Business Development Professional, William Kendall has nearly four decades of early stage, small & medium sized enterprise development and operational experience. He has held the offices of CEO, CFO, and COO in enterprises ranging across a variety of industries including electronic payment processing (EFT), radio frequency identification (RFID), fleet vehicle tracking (GPS), outplacement, direct mail (DM), automated valuation modeling (AVM), electronic forms and software systems, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced, peer-to-peer gaming systems, internet protocol television (IPTV), manufacturing scale-up, and investment banking. While a resident of Orange County, California, Bill was an active member of the Orange County Tech Coast Angels, an early-stage angel investment group with some 400 members in Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Pasadena, California. He is a founder and former Chairman of the International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG), a global network of more than 300 public policy institutes in over 100 developing countries.

Bill has served as an investor/director/mentor to entrepreneurs in the software services, GPS telecommunications, intellectual property, manufacturing, new product introduction, investment banking, and public policy sectors. He has organized and financed start-up companies, developed strategic plans, negotiated complex contracts, and secured funding from angels, financial institutions, and the venture capital community. Bill has strong analytic, problem solving, communication, and team-building skills, and has an affinity for identifying and gathering the resources needed to implement new ideas.

Professional Accomplishments Include:

•	Founder and CEO of the nation’s first venture capital backed electronic funds transfer (EFT) and bill paying service bureau.

•	Project Manager for NYSE corporation building real-time, multi-service consumer PC system using proprietary public-packet switch network.

•	Founder and Principal of Partnership which purchased and operated a large franchisee organization employing over 800 professionals in 5 western states.

•	Founder of technology focused Venture Capital Company.

•	Arranged $20 million sale of franchise organization.

•	Mentored founder and CEO of Internet based software services enterprise through multiple financings and sale to Microsoft.

•	Provided seed capital and mentoring services to founders of GPS start-up now generating $15 million in revenues.

•	Founder, Chairman, and interim CEO of web-based automated valuation-modeling company. Raised over $2 million in seed capital and negotiated service contract with Bank of America.

•	Strategic and Business Development Advisor to a radio-frequency encapsulation start-up.

•	Secured $1 million+ seed capital for patent-protected Internet Protocol Television start-up.

•	Founder of offshore enterprise focused on commercializing patent-pending sensor-based technologies to gaming industry.

•	Negotiated acquisition/sale of electronic forms company.

•	Negotiated acquisition/sale of specialized direct mail company.

•	Advised CEO and produced business development plan for the commercialization of patented trading technology.

•	Managed litigation strategy for intellectual property protection.

Nonprofit & Volunteer Activities:

•	Former Chairman of Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS).

•	Founder and former Chairman of the International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG)—Overseers included notables; Former Chairman of Federal Reserve, Paul A. Volcker; Former Managing Director, J.P. Morgan & Co., Ernest Stern; former Chairman & CEO, Bank of America, A.W. Clausen; former Secretary of Defense, Roy L. Ash; Former Pres. Commonwealth Dev Corp, Sir William Ryrie; former President, Panama, Nicolas Ardito-Barletta, Ph.D. Former Pres. Federal Reserve Bank of NY, Anthony Solomon; former President Michigan State University, Peter McPherson

Education:

BA degree, Dartmouth College, Economics Major / Casque & Gauntlet Senior Honor Society / SAE

Other: Four-event skier at Dartmouth College. Member U.S. Biathlon Team. Runner-up 1970 United States Modern Winter Biathlon Championship, Jackson Hole, WY. Member U.S. National Biathlon Team. Competitor 1970 World Biathlon Games, Ostersund, Sweden