Bill brings his experience as a successful senior executive driving product development, customer support, and business strategy to his role at Panasas as Senior VP of Technical Operations. In this role he will lead Panasas’s Quality, Global Services and Engineering organizations. Prior to joining Panasas, Bill served Nextance Corporation as its COO helping drive growth and a successful merger with Trilogy. Prior to Nextance, Bill was Senior Vice President of Products and CTO for Alphablox, an innovative business intelligence software company acquired by IBM. Prior to Alphablox, Bill held executive engineering leadership positions at Red Brick Systems and NCR/Teradata helping each of them achieve record growth.

Bill holds a BS from UC Irvine and an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.