William Crowder is a Managing Director with DreamIt Ventures. He is responsible for the oversight and operation of our newly announced Comcast Minority Entrepreneur Accelerator Program. William is the Founder and Managing Director of Growth Strategy Advisors, a boutique strategic advisory and business development company launched in 2008. Since its inception, William has overseen the firm’s growth and nationwide expansion. As Managing Director, he has been directly involved in the formation and implementation of new growth strategies, assessments of new business opportunities, and the launching of new ventures for a wide variety of digital and traditional media companies. Throughout his career he has served as a trusted advisor to senior executives at companies such as Radio One, Interactive One, AOL, and Thomson Legal (now Thomson Reuters). He has over 14 years of strategy and operations consulting experience; many of them with technology and digital media businesses. He has also been involved in the acquisition and integration of several technology-focused companies including Third Screen Media (acquired by AOL), Community Connect (acquired by Interactive One), and Transaction Network Services (acquired by GTCR). Prior to founding GS Advisors, William served as a Director of Strategy and Business Development with AOL and as a consultant with Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). Early in his career he was a software developer and was a core member of the Prodigy Internet development team. William received his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He also holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from North Carolina State University where his research efforts focused on the performance evaluation of high-speed data networks.
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