Bill was co-founder and CEO of Global Data Consortium (GDC) before its acquisition by London Stock Exchange Group in May 2022.
He started his career working with SAS Institute before working in a variety of companies focused on international address verification, matching and data quality that had a habit of being acquired successfully including AddressDoctor, Loqate, Identity Systems and Intelligent Search Technology.
Bill is an active angel investor. Past exits include Union Metrics (sold to Trendkite/Cision); Magnus Health (private equity acquisition) and Loqate (acquired by GB Group UK). As part of his volunteer work with the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) Bill has mentored over 80 companies through early, mid-stage growth and exit challenges.
He attended Northrop University in Los Angeles, California and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Talks by Bill Spruill
| Q&A: Autobooks case study | October 2023 |
| Mistakes That Didn’t Kill My Company | April 2023 |
| Leadership Lessons from Growth & Exit | September 2022 |
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