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Bill Gross
Chairman and CEO, Idealab
Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and has served as Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Officer and as a Director since that time. Mr.
Gross served as President from March 1996 to March 2000. Prior to Idealab,
he founded a number of companies. Bill started Solar Devices, a firm which sold
plans and kits for solar energy products and he patented a new loudspeaker design
and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from California Institute of
Technology, Bill started GNP Development, Inc., which made a natural language
product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation
acquired GNP. From February 1986 to March 1991, he was a software engineer
at Lotus Development. In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational
software publisher that was eventually sold to Havas, which is owned by Vivendi
Universal. Bill serves on the boards of directors of numerous companies and is
also a member of the Board of Trustees of California Institute of Technology and
the Art Center College of Design. Bill received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from California Institute of Technology.
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