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Pivot22 Founder: Bill Clark

William (Bill) Clark is a technology industry leader, entrepreneur, inventor, and adjunct professor. His experience spans across Telecommunications, Utilities, Automotive, Public Sector, High Tech, Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Retail, Consumer Industries, Sports, Healthcare and Education.   Bill has held numerous strategic leadership positions.  

 

At SAP, Bill was a Global Vice President leading mobile innovation strategy and partnerships, focusing on AI, edge computing and computer vision.   Bill was selected as Managing Vice President for Application Innovation at Gartner, focused on application of artificial intelligence, blockchain, user experience, and consumer facing application platforms.  Prior to managing, Bill was a Gartner Research Vice President covering mobile and low-code application development, user experience, wireless networking, and location technologies. 

 

Bill also held multiple roles at Ericsson, including Director.  He was responsible for Ericsson’s wireless internet strategy, reporting to the CTO office and he led standards efforts in W3C/WAP that led to the adoption of internet browsing on mobile phones, and he led the team that created the world’s first Bluetooth implementation.   Bill started his career in industrial automation at Texas Instruments, researching and implementing textual and graphical language compilers and writing operating systems and applications used for continuous manufacturing processes.  

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Professor Clark holds an MBA from Duke University Fuqua School of Business, and B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

 

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