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william schneiderman

Startup & Growth Adviser, Founder & CEO, Educator

Berkeley, California

Work Experience

2019

  • Strategic Adviser and Investor

    2019

    Sorcero delivers 10X expert productivity in life science companies using carefully and extensively tailored Natural Language Processing and AI to unlock Enterprise knowledge buried in reams of unstructured data. Sharpened the firm's customer focus and value proposition for both funding and marketing approaches.

2021

  • Founder's Coach and Mentor

    2021

    Transforming AI models from an island in Data Science to an indispensable element of operations at scale by embedding insights right in workflows - exactly when and where needed.

  • Startup Mentor

    2022

    The Alchemist Accelerator is a venture-backed initiative focused on accelerating startups whose customers are largely business enterprises. The accelerator backs teams with distinctive technical founders, and provides funding, a fellowship of high potential founders, highly sought after mentors, customer development, and a structured path to fundraising.

  • Investor

    2019

    Madorra is empowering women to live fuller, richer, healthier lives by developing the first non-invasive, non-hormonal medical device to treat vaginal atrophy. An easy-to-use, at-home device, providing immediate and long-term benefits without the risks of current hormone-based approaches.

  • Instructor Bay Area I-Corps

    2019

    I-Corps is an intensive, customer-discovery-based, NSF program for founders to find their customer and develop business models that work. As their Instructor, I have helped hundreds of founding teams learn how to rapidly find business truth and accelerate their journey.

  • Adviser

    2018

    SkyDeck is one of the largest startup accelerators and seed investors in the world. As Sky Adviser, I help teams craft their customer and investor facing approaches, make their key decisions, and meet the right people for business and customer development.

2015 - 2020

  • Chairman Advisory Board

    2015 - 2020

    Pemco Holdings, LLC (Pemco) increases real estate value by reducing energy operating costs without incurring owner capital investment. As Chairman, I focused the team's efforts and resources to take the company from near-death to consistent profitability.

2016 - 2018

  • Advisory Board Member

    2016 - 2018

    OpsPanda is a SAAS company driving growth and profitability for client companies by right-sizing, right-timing and right-skilling sales resources. I authored several white papers supporting the product rationale, marketing approach and messages that helped lead to OpsPanda's sale to Exactly in September 2018.

1994 - 2018

  • Founder and CEO

    1994 - 2018

    The Results Group (TRG) delivers consulting for rapid and robust product, service and process innovation and change. Under Bill’s leadership, the firm grew 1,000% by becoming a trusted partner in Silicon Valley & beyond. Sample client results include: acceleration of innovation velocity for a previously dominant technology player, paving the way for renewed leadership; dramatically improved market share, inventory turnover and stock price for a top-three semiconductor equipment company; turnaround of an immature and dysfunctional supply chain in the midst of an exponential business-growth crisis for an emerging mobile internet infrastructure provider; doubling of caller satisfaction with international support center performance for a financial software leader.

  • Adjunct Professor

    2018 - 2018

    In CCA's pioneering Design Strategy MBA program, student teams design a new business venture from the ground up. As their Industry Mentor, I enjoy working with the students to increase their business acumen and grow in their professional identity.