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Bill co-founded Scayl and serves as Chairman and CEO. He is responsible for leading the overall direction and strategic vision of the company. Bill is an entrepreneur and former venture capitalist with a record of launching companies and technologies that reinvent ways to communicate online. He brings over twenty years of experience in
entrepreneurial ventures as founder, operating executive, board member and venture investor.
Prior to Scayl, Bill was an early-stage venture capitalist and co-founding partner of Timberline Ventures which helped build the global Draper DFJ venture network as one of its earliest affiliates. Notable investments included Varolli, a top 100 Washington State employer; Streamcast Networks maker of Morpheus software, a pioneering P2P file sharing application downloaded 170 million times with over 30 million users at its peak, Sabrix, acquired by Thomson Reuters 12/09 for ~$200 million, and Moving.com acquired by NASDAQ: MNST for ~$80 million.
Morpheus changed how people think about and share digital media. The FastTrack protocol powered both Morpheus and Kazaa and led to Skype which became the leader in VoIP and video chat. Scayl analogously reinvents social email-like communications with unlimited file size, speed, and privacy to securely deliver digital media at lowest cost.
Bill was involved with several start-ups and technology leaders prior to Timberline including: Eyeonics (electrochromics) where he was founder/CEO, President and Director, Kollmorgen (compound semi-conductor process equipment), Cray Research (supercomputers), and Hewlett Packard (microwave semi-conductor devices).
Bill has a Harvard MBA; an MS in Materials Science Engineering from Stanford; and a BA in Chemistry from Reed College. He has five issued patents and three pending at Scayl.
