Bill Kirk is the CEO and Co-founder of Weather Trends International. He has 26-years experience with a contagious passion for applying year-ahead business weather guidance and predictive analytics to help Fortune 1,000 companies and farmers everywhere achieve better business in any weather. To date, over $1 Billion in ROIs have been achieved for WTI’s weather savvy clients. This is the second company Bill has founded with the first selling for a 28X return on investment in 3 years. Bill has raised $6.8 million in venture capital from Kodiak Venture Partners, Trestle Ventures, and Innovation Capital. Bill served as a Captain in the U. S. Air Force and worked with NASA and the Space Shuttle Columbia Ferry Flights, briefed 1000’s 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 the overall economy. Bill is regularly featured on Fox, CNBC and other national TV networks and quoted in Bloomberg, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, ICSC and Citigroup retail reports and other media outlets as an expert in long range weather cycles. 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 is a graduate of Rutgers University as an Air Force Distinguished Graduate with a B.S. in Meteorology. Bill currently sits on the Advisory Board of Directors for Millersville University’s Business of Science Masters Program, and is a lifetime founding member of the Open Atmospheric Society (OAS). Bill is a signatory and member of the Cornwall Alliance.