H. William (Bill) Ebeling, Jr. has over 30 years of experience in strategy development, where he largely focused on growth. Even when he was a CIO he was working for BBN which is where the Internet (originally ARPANET) was created. It was a high growth company in its formative years.

As a founder of Braxton Associates, Bill helped develop the firm into one of the top strategy consulting firms which was sold to Deloitte (Touche Ross) in 1984. At Braxton Bill worked largely for industrial companies such as Dupont, Corning, Owens Corning and GE; however, he also worked for Instinet and Pella. At these companies he led both corporate and business unit strategy development efforts which included team members from the companies. The issues were almost always either growth or competitive positioning, which can lead to growth.

Bill helped create two web-related ventures for two major clients of the firm. He was on the management committee of one of the ventures in its formative months where he was responsible for vision/strategy and for developing financial forecasts that were used to obtain funding. He is also on the board of a small materials company.

Mr. Ebeling has co-authored articles on acquisition strategy and core competencies in The Journal of Business Strategy. He has written a chapter on the failures of strategy for the Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers published by McGraw Hill and has had a chapter published in Winning in the New Europe by Prentice Hall which addressed strategy in light of the “unification” of the European market. He also co-authored two booklets on convergence, titled Speeding Toward the Interactive Multimedia Age and Interactive Multimedia Age II. He also wrote a small piece on e-Business strategy for Information Week.

Bill has an SB and SM (now MBA) in Management from MIT. He was a Teaching Assistant in Managerial Psychology and Computer Programming while in graduate school.