Bill is an author, leading turnaround consultant, entrepreneur and advisor to management. Bill is CEO of TeamWork Technologies of Northbrook, Illinois. He has over 25 years of experience including turnaround, restructuring, dramatic change and distress consulting with over 100 business units and their leaders. He is Past Chairman of the Turnaround Management Association(7,000members) and President of the Chicago Chapter of TMA(1,000members). A former consulting partner at Ernst & Young, Bill is a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP) and a VP and director of the Association of Certified Turnaround Professionals. He works with distressed and healthy companies on issues of strategic options, value building , corporate renewal and dramatic change. Bill has led a variety of educational seminars and conducts research in the area of stock price trends, valuation, and business failure. He serves as community leader for the Illinois CPA Society's Center for Corporate Financial Leadership now serving 7 states and over 20,000 CPAs. He is also managing director of Board Resources. His latest co-authored book titled: Building Value Through Strategy, Risk Assessment and Renewal is published by Commerce Clearing House. Bill's turnaround and strategy clients have included both healthy and distressed Fortune 500 companies such as Allstate Insurance, Baxter International, LTV, National Steel, Continental Airlines, as well as a variety of smaller public and privately-held companies such as Jiffy Lube, Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel, Florida Steel, Cross & Trecker, and Specialty Equipment. Bill's industry experience is broad based and includes retailers and consumer and industrial manufacturers such as: tool and valve manufacturers, mini-mills, homebuilders, publishers, newspapers, automotive suppliers, machine tools and electronics. Bill earned an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in Engineering Systems Analysis and Operations Research with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is a former director of the University of Illinois Alumni Association and a former Chairman of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board. He is an inventor with US and Foreign Patents. (1-05-06)
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