Bill Hunt

Current

CEO at William Hunt Partners

Past

Vice President of Engineering, Service & Operations at Habeas - acq by Return Path
Vice President of Operations at ClearApp -acq by Oracle
Chief Executive Officer at Akaba

Engineering at Internet Devices - acq by Alcatel
Engineering at VPNet - acq by Avaya
Firewall/VPN Engineering Manager at Novell

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Education

University of California, San Diego

Recommended

8 people have recommended Bill

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Bill Hunt’s Summary

Bill Hunt is a technology CEO/CTO who has founded and/or been a senior exec at 5 successful software companies, each first and a leader in their space. Four of these were acquired by companies including Oracle, Avaya and Alcatel, the top two for $180 million+ each. Earlier in his career, Bill developed important product lines at Novell and has 12 patents to his credit. Bill is an advisor or board member of several high-quality companies, and is an occasional speaker on technology and entrepreneurial topics.

Bill Hunt’s Specialties:

Strong experience building software startups, from the "two guys in a garage" mode through 150+ employees.

Solid experience delivering software as a service, as an application or in an appliance.

Bill Hunt’s Experience

CEO

William Hunt Partners

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — Present (10 months)

Management consulting, including
Business Planning and Strategy,
Fund Raising,
Product Management,
Engineering Management,
Operations Management
Vice President of Engineering, Service & Operations

Habeas - acq by Return Path

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Managed product development, operations and customer service departments of Email Deliverability/Anti-Spam company
Vice President of Operations

ClearApp -acq by Oracle

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Managed operations at world's first company providing self-learning application management products.
Chief Executive Officer

Akaba

(Computer & Network Security industry)

February 2000 — November 2004 (4 years 10 months)

World’s first security vulnerability assessment services company (delivered appliances and a web service)
Engineering

Internet Devices - acq by Alcatel

(Computer Networking industry)

December 1997 — February 2000 (2 years 3 months)

Managed engineering and support at world’s first firewall appliance company. products offered firewall, VPN, Quality of Service (QOS).
Engineering

VPNet - acq by Avaya

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; AV; Telecommunications industry)

July 1995 — December 1997 (2 years 6 months)

Managed software engineering at world’s first Virtual Private Networking (VPN) company
Firewall/VPN Engineering Manager

Novell

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NOVL; Computer Software industry)

January 1991 — July 1995 (4 years 7 months)