President & CEO, Afligo
West Palm Beach, Florida Area
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- President & CEO at Afligo
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- President & CEO at Cybiz, Inc
- President & COO at Bidders Edge, Inc
- SVP/COO at Earthweb, Inc. (Dice.com)
- Founder/CEO at Business Computers of Peterborough
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William F Gollan’s Summary
Bill served 3 years as CEO of Cybiz, a Supplier Enablement SW company with funding from Middle East, delivering integrated procurement solutions, clients included Renault Fr, Dimension Data, Econocom Fr and ePlus. Mr. Gollan served 2 years as President of Bidders Edge an auction aggregation & media-advertising site offering on-line auction buyers the ability to search on-line auctions across 100 auction sites without having to search each host site.
As of March '00, the site contained information on more that 5 million items. Starting in '97 Bill held the position of SVP, the equivalent of COO at Earthweb (NASDAQ; EWBX) and a member of the Corporate Governance team. Bill had global responsibility for DICE.com, e-Commerce, sales, marketing as well as R&D. Bill played a key role in the company’s November '98 IPO which raised $34 million, the May '99 follow-on raising $26 million, and finally the $70 million convertible, led by Merrill Lynch. During Bill’s tenure, revenues grew from $1 million to over $50 million, with staffing increasing from 37 professionals to well over 350. Bill leveraged his extensive IT & media industry knowledge and business experience in executing EWBX's strategic direction.
Mr. Gollan was a Senior Vice President of LitleNet beginning in February '96 focusing on electronic software distribution (ESD). From March '94 to April '96, Mr. Gollan was a Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Kurzweil AI. From December '87 to March '94, Mr. Gollan was a Managing Director of Weatherview Management Consultants. In '90, Mr. Gollan co-founded Computer Buying World Magazine, an IDG monthly trade magazine focused on the computer distribution channel.
Between '80-'87 Mr Gollan, was founder/CEO of very ealry stage mail-order catalog company focusing on Radio Shack TRS-80, Apple and IBM PCs. Prior to '80, Mr Gollan was a professional ice skating instructor (hockey), and IBM programmer.
William F Gollan’s Specialties:
Crafting integrated strategies that leverage & maximize all elements of content, community & commerce - lowering customer acquisition costs and driving subscriber/customer growth. Bill's intimate understanding of old and new meida combined with distributed internet-technologies,
William F Gollan’s Experience
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President & CEO
Afligo
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Afligo is a registered trade name of Worlwide Rebates, Inc - which is a wholly owned subsidiary of NYSE; SYX, a $2.6 billion reseller of IT products & services. We provide electronic rebate processing & marketing services to manufactures, big-box & e-Retailers and their manufactures/suppliers.
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President & CEO
Cybiz, Inc
(Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 7 months)
President & CEO of early stage Supplier Enablement software & professional services company backed by private equity - from Europe and Middle East. CyBiz delivers integrated supplier enablement and procurement solutions that connect trading partners faster and easier, dramatically optimizing supply chain efficiency.
The CyBiz solution suite enables organizations to streamline the supply chain process for managing supplier content and collaboration; quoting and order tracking; fulfillment; and customer orders. The solution suite is powered by a collaborative trans-enterprise workflow engine which connects business processes both within the enterprise and among the supply chain partners. The solutions are delivered through a browser-based interface that integrates seamlessly with enterprise and legacy applications; customer e-procurement platforms; and distributor and manufacturers' fulfillment systems. -
President & COO
Bidders Edge, Inc
(Computer Software industry)
May 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Venture backed, Burlington MA company with 22 employees. BE is an auction aggregation site designed to offer on-line auction buyers the ability to search for items across numerous on-line auctions without having to search each host site individually. As of March 2000, the BE web site contained information on more that 5 million items being auctioned on more than one hundred auction sites. The information available on the BE site is contained in a database of information that BE compiles through access to various auction sites such as eBay. When a user enters a search for a particular item at BE, BE searches its database and generates a list of every item in the database responsive to the search, organized by auction closing date and time. Rather than going to each host auction site one at a time, a user who goes to BE may conduct a single search to obtain information about that item on every auction site tracked by BE.
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SVP/COO
Earthweb, Inc. (Dice.com)
(Internet industry)
January 1997 — March 2001 (4 years 3 months)
Senior Vice President, the equivalent of Chief Operating Officer at Earthweb (NASDAQ: DICE), and was a member of the Corporate Governance team. In his role Bill had worldwide responsibility for Earthweb’s DICE.com, e-Commerce, sales & marketing as well as R&D. Bill played a key role in the company’s November 1998 IPO which raised $34 million, the May 1999 follow-on raising $26 million, and finally the $70 million convertible, led by Merrill Lynch. During Bill’s tenure at Earthweb, revenues grew from $1 million to over $50 million, with staffing increasing from 37 professionals to well over 350.
Mr. Gollan leveraged his extensive computer industry knowledge and business experience in executing Earthweb’s strategic direction. His accomplishments included dramatic growth in revenues, gross margins, customer base, page views and paid subscribers. In 1999 Earthweb’s revenues increased 872% over the previous year. -
Founder/CEO
Business Computers of Peterborough
(Consumer Electronics industry)
1980 — 1988 (8 years)
Having worked as a freelance Editor at 73 magazine (ham radio), Mr Gollan saw the shift in computing, from mini-mainframe to micros and with $7,000 of his own money, founded a very ealry stage discount mail-order catalog company focusing on Radio Shack TRS-80, Apple and IBM PCs. Demand generation was driven by a paid subscription model, whereby "subscribers" would pay $25/annual membership fee to receive monthly newsletter updates that highlighted the latest and greates technology and price deals - way ahead of Pricegrabber and other internet-based shopping sites.
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William F Gollan’s Interests:
My family & home is first love. Fly fishing in Maine for Landlock Salmon in Spring & Fall. Fly fishing on Key Biscayne early in the morning for "anything". Swordfishing off Miami under the stars.
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