Bill Hunt

Bill Hunt

Software CEO/CTO, Advisor, Speaker

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • CEO at William Hunt Partners
Past
Education
  • University of California, San Diego
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

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 2008Present (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 2007October 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 2004January 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 2000November 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 1997February 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 1995December 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 1991July 1995 (4 years 7 months)


Bill Hunt’s Education

  • University of California, San Diego

    19821985


Additional Information

Bill Hunt’s Websites:

Bill Hunt’s Interests:

building technology businesses, imagining the future, writing music, being a dad

Bill Hunt’s Groups:

  •    VLAB
  •    Novell Alumni
  •    Executive Suite
  •    FountainBlue
  •    KIVA
  •    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
  •    Bootstrappers Breakfast
  •    Artificial Intelligence
  •    Private Equity and Venture Capital Group
  •    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
  •    Venture Capital
  •    Global Private Equity & Venture Capital
  •    Startup Specialists
  •    Cloud Computing
  •    Silicon Valley Venture Community
  •    Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals
  •    SpinOut
  •    Novell BorderManager Alumni
  •    Bay Area Artificial Intelligence - Silicon Valley

Bill Hunt’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • career opportunities
  • consulting offers
  • new ventures
  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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