Bill Champitto

Bill Champitto

Principal, Executive Producer

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • President and Executive Director at Creative Boston Design Studio, LLC
Past
  • Co-Owner at Fresh Cut Glass
  • Principal at Leader Networks
  • Vice President at Maxiom Group
Education
  • Berklee College of Music
  • Hudson Valley Community College
  • State University of New York - System
Connections
275 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Bill Champitto’s Summary

Bill is currently a the Executive Director for Creative Boston Design Studio, a boutique firm focused on Creative Direction, Identity Profile and Design Services in eMedia, Print and Multi-Media for small to medium sized companies. In this role, Bill has also support the founding of Leader Networks with partner Vanessa DiMauro focusing on helping companies leverage social network and virtual community practices for business development and customer relations. Bill Champitto graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston with a Bachelors Degree in Music Performance in 1984, and also holds an Associated Degree for Business Management from SUNY.

Bill entered the technology field in 1984 as a designer of interfaces for on-line business applications at both W.R. Grace and Investors Bank and Trust. He moved into consulting at Keane, Inc. and became the Managing Director of their e-Services business unit as it grew from $56M to $231M between 1996 and 1999. Bill moved to become Managing Director at Primix Solutions, an internet based consulting firm helping clients translate their brand to the web for extending sales and marketing channels, knowledge management development and focused communities.

In 2002 Bill became a founder member of Maxiom Consulting Group, supporting the business transformation of emerging life sciences bringing new products to market. In 2005 Bill founded Creative Boston Design Studios, LLC. As the Executive Creative Director, Bill helps companies create an environment that brings their image and brand to life through corporate identity framework development, directing and designing graphics for marketing and training materials, websites, seminars and tradeshows, and designs for executive offices and conference rooms.

Bill Champitto’s Specialties:

Social Networking, Social Media, Online Community, Virtual Communities, Brand Architecture, Corporate Identity, Graphic Design, Office Design, Marketing, Technology Planning and Consulting, Life Sciences, IT Processes, Compliance, GxP practices, BioTechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Document Management, Collaboration


Bill Champitto’s Experience

  • President and Executive Director

    Creative Boston Design Studio, LLC

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

    August 2005Present (4 years 4 months)

    Bill focuses on Brand Architecture, Corporate Identity, Graphic Design and Office Space. As an executive director, he assists companies in creating a brand architecture, which provides the creative direction to bring a company's image and goals into tangible and actionable creative direction. His access to designers and artists from multiple disciplines makes it possible for Creative Boston to create an environment, whether digital, print, or physical, that evokes a response that is aligned with your corporate image.

  • Co-Owner

    Fresh Cut Glass

    (Internet industry)

    20052009 (4 years )

  • Principal

    Leader Networks

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    November 2005December 2007 (2 years 2 months)

    Leader Networks is a leading management consulting company offering a deep expertise in building business to business online communities, leveraging social network and digital influence practices that focus on customer care.

    The principals of Leader Networks are among the top strategists in virtual community building, worldwide, offering deep expertise to your collaboration planning and execution. Our numerous clients span startups to F1000 companies such as EMC, DCI, Digital Influence Group, INMobile, Larstan Business Services, SAP, Boston College, Jigsaw, Manning and Napier, and TowerGroup.

    Our consulting services include:

    Interactive Strategy & Brand Execution
    Community Planning and Execution
    Post Launch Services

  • Vice President

    Maxiom Group

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2002August 2005 (3 years 6 months)

    Provides a focused set of services to support commercialization and GxP efforts of emerging life sciences companies. These services include solutions in the areas of compliant IT processes, records management, business and competitive intelligence, and collaboration.

  • Managing Director

    Burntsand

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2001March 2002 (1 year 1 month)

    Manage a consulting P&L focused on Document and Knowledge Management solutions. Responsible for client relationships and delivery of services, developing business, identifying market strategy, and managing daily operations. Provided support as the subject matter expert on Enterprise Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Portal Strategies, Collaboration and Knowledge Management.

  • Managing Director

    Primix Solutions

    (Internet industry)

    20002002 (2 years )

  • Managing Director

    Primix

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; pmx; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 2000March 2001 (1 year 1 month)

    Manage a consulting P&L focused on Document and Knowledge Management solutions. Responsible for client relationships and delivery of services, developing business, identifying market strategy, and managing daily operations. Provided support as the subject matter expert on Enterprise Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Portal Strategies, Collaboration and Knowledge Management.

  • Director, eSolutions

    Keane, Inc.

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    March 1998February 2000 (2 years )

    Managed Marketing, Sales and Delivery of strategic services across 50 branches in North America and Europe. Established enabling organizational structure to support the sale and delivery of Strategic Services.
    • Developed corporate practice with 2000 revenue target of 24% of ISD’s $1.2B target.
    • Developed strategic service offerings, including Enterprise Architecture, e-Solutions, Business Intelligence, and Customer Relationship Management
    • Provided support for opportunities at Toyota, GMAC, J.P Morgan, and others.

  • Consulting Manager

    Keane, Inc. Boston Branch

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 1992March 1998 (5 years 5 months)

    Ultimate responsibility for quality of Keane delivered strategic services, managing to revenue targets and a net-zero P&L.
    • Generated $10M of services in final year in role, accounting for 20% of branch revenue.
    • Developed organizational structure of business unit.
    • Maintained relationships with major clients engaging strategic Keane Managed Services.

    Service Delivery Manager - Greater Boston (Nov 1992 – Dec 1995) Directed delivery of over $8M of services in 1996, for a client list that included Fidelity, EMC, BankBoston, Biogen, Avery-Dennison, BayBank, John Hancock Mutual Funds, Osram/Sylvania and Cahner’s Publishing. Managed delivery organization that exceeded 80 consultants by 1996.

  • Director of Development

    Investors Bank & Trust

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IFIN; Financial Services industry)

    March 1986March 1989 (3 years 1 month)

    Created and executed plan to upgrade Security Movement and Control and Portfolio Management Systems intended to increase competitive position of the company’s products and services. Initiative addressed handling of Multi-Currency and Global Exchanges, portfolio management, cash management functions, and currency and security movement functions.


Bill Champitto’s Education

  • Berklee College of Music

    BA , Performance , 19811984

  • Hudson Valley Community College

    AS , Business Management , 19761978

    Suma Cum Laude

  • State University of New York - System

    AS , Business Management , 19761978

    Suma Cum Laude


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Bill Champitto’s Groups:

  •    Executive Suite
  •    Pharmaceutical Marketing
  •    Keane Alumni
  •    Berklee College of Music Alumni
  •    Management Consulting Jobs

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