 | President and CEO of Venture Planning Associates - Which specializes in entrepreneurial management, finance, and business development in venture capital, startups, LBO's, Mergers and Acquisitions, deal analysis, deal structuring, and turnarounds at the CEO, CFO and COO level. | Bill has been a Senior Management Consultant for 25+ years for major US and international companies including GE Capital, Alyeska Pipeline, Battelle Northwest Labs, Sheraton Asia Pacific, US Navy, USNRC and the United Nations Development Program. He was also a founding director and past president of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association and founding partner in the Hawaii Venture Fund. Bill holds a B. S. degree in engineering, physics and mathematics and a M.S. degree in nuclear engineering. Prior to the venture capital and financial consulting fields, he served as a Fast Attack Nuclear Submarine Officer, Chief Nuclear Test Engineer at Pearl Harbor, and Superintendent of the Mauna Kea Astronomical Observatories, now the largest ground based astronomical research center in the world. | | | |  | |