William Weiss

Mr. Weiss is strategic thinker who has been providing counsel to corporate leaders for more than 30 years. His experience has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America. Areas of particular interest include media, telecommunications, information and new emerging technologies. Bill has unique way of analyzing the opportunity landscape and creating new business connections. This offers companies, boards and investors a fresh strategic framework for understanding how technology and change can create new possibilities.

His unique approach is named “Design a Future© “which includes 4 key principles that consistently affect how one may strategically gain and maintain success. Some of the clients who have worked with Bill and The Promar Group include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, Toshiba and others

In addition to his roles as Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Promar Group, Bill also serves as a partner, Senior Fellow and advisory board member for organizations such as Quantum Capital, a venture capital firm for early-stage, business-to-business technology companies; The Media Center at The American Press Institute, a think-tank organization that promotes innovation in media and enabling technology; Infowave Software (TSE: IW), a Vancouver-based wireless software firm focused on delivering significant results for the mobile enterprise.

As other executives and investors from around the world began to approach Bill to take advantage of his insights, he transformed The Promar Group into one of the first virtual enterprises through the founding of The Promar Group Executive Consortium©. It is a carefully selected group of experts and successful international executives previously from GE, IBM, MSNBC, Saatchi & Saatchi, the United States Navy and others which form the basis of his continued success and that of Promar.

Bill and The Promar Group have also been featured in publications such as Work Naked, a fast-selling business book focusing on the virtual workplace, and Fast Company Magazine’s Fast Pack 2000, a gathering and follow-up article on the movers and shakers for the year 2000 and beyond.

Bill has often been asked to share his unique viewpoints, insights and experiences based on his model of “Design a Future©” by speaking or chairing panels at corporate and high-level events. His presentations include the keynote, "Driving Revenue and Profits from Information Technology" for the G.E. Executive Leadership Team sponsored by the CIO; the keynote "Designing A Future for Success" for the executives and employees of a new Ericsson business unit; chairman of the panel "Exploring the New Business Terrain for Media" for The Media Center at The American Press Institute's MediaMorphosis event to executives of media and technology firms worldwide.

Mr. Weiss also devotes time and the resources of his firm to projects that help young people. His corporate sponsorships include the Duke University Children's Hospital.