Bill Hunt

Current

CTO at IncentAlign

Past

CEO at TweetAmigo - acq by Involver
CEO at William Hunt Partners
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

9 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 6 successful software companies, each first and a leader in their space. Five 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

CTO

IncentAlign

(Computer Software industry)

August 2009 — Present (4 months)

IncentAlign is a great early-stage SaaS company that gives enterprise sales teams actionable understanding of their data, then optimizes lead, territory and resource allocations to best maximize revenues.
CEO

TweetAmigo - acq by Involver

(Computer Software industry)

January 2009 — August 2009 (8 months)

TweetAmigo builds an enterprise Twitter platform which enables companies to automatically provide relevant content for their followers, grow their follower base, and track, manage and better understand that base.
CEO

William Hunt Partners

(Computer Software industry)

October 2008 — August 2009 (11 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)