- Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
- Senior lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
- President, MIT Clean Energy Prize
- Master’s Degree in Science Management, MIT
- University Degree in Engineering, Harvard University
Bill is a successful leader in business, with over 25 years experience in all fields related to high-tech operations, product marketing and finance strategies, both for startups and public companies.
Portofolio
Bill Aulet has raised over $100 million in funding for his companies and directly created hundreds of millions of dollars of market value. He started his career with eleven years at IBM, then the top training ground for high technology executives. This culminated with Bill being named a prestigious MIT Sloan Fellow in 1993.
Upon graduation in 1994, Bill became a serial entrepreneur, founding and running two MIT spinouts as the President/CEO of Cambridge Decision Dynamics and then SensAble Technologies. The latter was twice named to Inc. Magazine’s 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies. With a presence in over twenty countries, SensAble also won over two dozen awards and was featured in Fortune Magazine, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications for its innovative products and strong business foundation.
In 2003, Bill was recruited as the Chief Financial Officer to help turn around Viisage Technology, a security technology company, based on his strong operational experience. At the time of his arrival, Viisage was losing $2.4M per quarter. Working quickly to develop a new strategy, as well as a culture of innovation and strong execution, the company achieved a dramatic transformation in his 2.5 year tenure. During this timeframe, the market value for Viisage increased from approximately $50 million to over $500 million.
In 2005, Bill became the Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and was appointed Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In January 2010, he was promoted to Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Bill is Chairman of the MIT Clean Energy Prize, a venture creation and innovation competition that was established in 2008 to encourage innovation in the energy space, specifically with regard to clean energy which was cited as a major driver in MIT being named the ‘#1 University‘ in the US for CleanTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in January 2010.
Bill has taught and worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives at MIT and not only. Bill has been engaged around the world with a wide range of companies ranging from inspired individual entrepreneurs to large firms such as Danfoss, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Mobilink and Saudi Aramco, all striving to be more innovative and fast moving.
Bill also serves on the Board of Directors or Advisors of a number of highly innovative companies. His particular areas of interests are entrepreneurship, innovation, energy, and superior performance through alignment. In addition to his experience with his own companies, Bill has mentored and advised numerous other companies on their fundraising process and is frequently consulted by Venture Capitalists and Business Angels.
Bill has been teaching the Entrepreneurial Skills Development workshops and programs for more than 4 years in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Canada.
He is a regular featured speaker at management leadership programs around the world and is also a contributor as an Xconomist on www.xconomy.com.
