Bill Kirk is CEO, Co-founder and Board member of Weather Trends International based in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. He has 22 years. experience with a contagious passion when it comes to applying year-ahead weather intelligence for profitable business strategies in retail, manufacturing, utilities, media, consumer products, financial sectors and in the military. Bill helped WTI win 12 national and international business technology awards including Red Herring Technology Awards, American Business Innovation Awards and #5 on Forbes Most Promising Company Top 20 list out of 10,000+ companies.

This is the second company Bill has founded with the first sold for a 28X return on investment in 3 years and has worked with executives at dozens of Fortune 500 companies to help them minimize their weather exposure utilizing proprietary year-ahead global forecasting technology. Over the past 5 years Bill has raised $6.5 million dollars from several venture capitalists (Kodiak, Trestle Ventures, Innovation Capital and $750K debt services from Sand Hill Capital).

Bill served as a Captain in the United States Air Force and worked with NASA and the Space Shuttle Columbia Ferry Flights, briefed 1000s of F-16 fighter missions and saved the government millions of dollars in the procurement of a $100 million dollar Satellite Data Handling System.

He has published several business-weather and technical reports identifying winning strategies to capitalize on the weather and has identified how weather influences retail sales and the overall economy. Bill is regularly featured on national TV networks and quoted in Bloomberg, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, ICSC and Citigroup retail reports and other media outlets as an expert in weather and retail sales. Bill is also a consulting partner with the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) with leader status on their network of experts (Top 5%). He is named on four U.S. and U.K. patents as inventor and co-inventor for business-weather forecasting technology.

Bill graduated from Rutgers University as an Air Force Distinguished Graduate with a B.S. in Meteorology.

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