Bill
Van Vleet

Global
Executive Advisor

Bill is a three-time CEO with over 35 years of experience and a proven record of achieving high revenue and earnings growth leading to successive, serial exits of private, public and PE-backed high technology companies.  He brings extensive experience in strategic planning, M&A, and corporate turnarounds. As the CEO at Applied Signal Technology, he built a publicly-traded company to over $250M in revenues, culminating in a successful sale to Raytheon.  Bill has received awards from SmartCEO, GovCon and Red Herring as executive-of-the-year for leading private technology companies to record growth.  He has also been a speaker at the Aspen Security Forum, presented to the U.S. Congress and appeared as a guest on CNBC’s Mad Money.  

Bill earned a MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University.