Bill is currently the President, CEO, and principal of Footprint Retail Services, a third party logistics management firm he acquired from The Hub Group (NASDAQ: HUBG) and sold to a private equity firm in 2007. Prior to that, Bill founded Integrated Merchandising Systems, LLC, a leading provider of visual advertising and promotional materials serving many of the best known global brands. Bill sold this business to the Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC) in 2001. Bill started his career as a corporate transactions lawyer with Bell Boyd & Lloyd in Chicago. Bill serves on the advisory board of Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. The Institute is Stanford’s principal policy center for addressing major international issues and challenges. He is also the founder and President of the Will Foundation, a 501(c)(3) private foundation focused on funding research for certain metabolic disorders. Bill is also a member of the boards of Children’s Memorial Medical Center and Children’s Memorial Foundation in Chicago, as well as the Pathways Awareness Foundation. Bill has earned an MA from Stanford University in International Policy, both an MM and JD from Northwestern University and a BBA from the University of Notre Dame where he was a Notre Dame Scholar.