Bill Weiss, Chairman & CEO of The Promar Group LLC, was the keynote speaker at the recent HTC Innovation Day event on September 27, 2011. Bill spoke to the attendees about the future of mobile and then Ron Louks, HTC Chief Strategy Officer, share the newest innovations from HTC and some of HTC’s plans for the future. The event was held at Bay 7 at the American Tobacco Campus in historical downtown Durham, NC.

William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC, has been chosen by Maxwell Technologies as an Executive Advisor to the CEO and leadership. Mr. Weiss will provide strategic insight and execution assistance on key growth opportunities for Maxwell.

Maxwell Technologies, headquartered in San Diego, CA, is a global market leader and innovator in the energy field. The company develops, manufactures and markets energy storage and power delivery solutions for automotive, heavy transportation, renewable energy, backup power, wireless communications and industrial and consumer electronics applications and other applications globally. Maxwell also has locations in Switzerland, Germany and China.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Promar’s work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Promar’s clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC, has been named as Advisor to the Board of Great Connection Inc.  Mr. Weiss will provide insight and assistance in the strategic evolution of Great Connection.  Previously, Mr. Weiss was in the position of interim Chairman for Great Connection Inc.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years.  Promar’s work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Promar’s clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

Great Connection AB was founded in Sweden in late December, 2007.  In the spring of 2010, Great Connection Inc. was founded and headquartered in San Diego, CA and it acquired the Swedish entity.  The company is now formally entering the US market and beyond.  Great Connect offers a solution that enables clinics and hospitals to convert, deliver and receive medical images in a secure, economic and timely fashion.

William Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC will serve as Chairman of the judging panel, for the PitchIt Challenge at the We Media NYC event on April 6, 2011.  This gathering connects a unique network of business leaders, strategists, journalists, marketers, investors, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and thinkers. The PitchIt Challenge allows nine would-be entrepreneurs to present their pitches to launch a new venture.  The two winners of the challenge receive $25,000 each to pursue their ground-breaking ideas. 

Mr. Weiss is an internationally renowned strategic thinker, board participant, experienced senior executive and keynote speaker.  He has served as Chairman of the PitchIt Challenge panel of judges in past years of the event and also currently serves as the Chairman of iFOCOS, the organization responsible for the We Media NYC event. 

The event will be held at Digital Sandbox, 55 Broad Street, NY, NY.  More information is available at http://wemedia.com/nyc/.

William Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC will be one of the two featured VIP guest speakers at the TIE Carolinas March event on March 17, 2011.  Mr. Weiss, is an internationally renowned strategic thinker, board participant, experienced senior executive and keynote speaker. He  will join with Dennis Crane, a leader at GE and other firms, to address “Successful Edge: Two breakthrough entrepreneurs share eight decades of experiences to define the road for the future. 

Bill will share his “Design A Future©” methods and discuss how this approach has assisted in his work with companies, boards and individuals to open new growth possibilities.  Examples will be provided during the address and Q&A.

The event will be held at the Brier Creek Country Club.  More information is available on TIE Carolinas’ website at http://www.carolinas.tie.org.

William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC, has been named to the Board of Advisors of McCafferty and Company, Los Angeles, CA. Mr. Weiss will provide insight and assistance in the strategic evolution of McCafferty & Company.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Their work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

McCafferty & Company is a boutique media and entertainment investment bank, based in Century City. The firm was founded in 2006. McCafferty & Company works across the media sector in film, television, music, digital media, out of home media, publishing and other related entertainment and communications verticals.

First on Mars has retained The Promar Group LLC as Advisor to the CEO and Board of Directors, through William C. Weiss, its Chairman and CEO. Mr. Weiss will be working with First on Mars to provide strategic guidance and execution assistance for growth and to explore adjacent opportunities utilizing advanced analytics.

First on Mars, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, is a platform that enables advanced social and video discovery guides for any connected Consumer Electronics Devices (example: TV, game consoles, set top box). The technology is architected to be easily deployable and high scalable across multiple environments – Web, Mobile, TV.

The Promar Group LLC, located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO and has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Their work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America, with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

William C. Weiss, Chairman and CEO of The Promar Group LLC, will be joining an executive panel on The Future of Entrepreneurship and the Web, at the Future Web 2010 (http://futureweb2010.wordpress.com ) conference. FutureWeb 2010 is a co-conference with the 19th International WWW Conference (http://www2010.org), which will be held April 26-30 in Raleigh, NC.

The panel will discuss The Web, within its relatively short lifetime, and how it has provided a foundation for some of the greatest entrepreneurial successes of all time. Also being discussed will be: what the future may look like for Web entrepreneurs; whether there will continue to be great companies born of disruptive innovation including where those opportunities may be; and what the competitive landscape will look like in the years to come.

Joining Mr. Weiss on the panel will be:

• Chair: Tom Miller, Entrepreneurship Initiative, and vice provost for DELTA, NC State University
• Scot Wingo, serial entrepreneur, co-founder, president and CEO of ChannelAdvisor Corporation, the leading provider of e-commerce channel management solutions.
• Chris Evans, entrepreneur and philanthropist, formerly founder and CEO of Accipiter Solutions, a leading provider of online advertising technology used by MSN, CNET, Lycos, ZDNet, Broadcast.com, Ask Jeeves and many others.
• David Gardner, serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO of VenueGen, a new-media company that is merging 3D virtual-world technology with social networking and learning applications. He has been the founder or co-founder of ProviderLink, Peopleclick, Report2Web, DBBasics, BuildLinks and OnSphere Corporation, raising more than $60 million in venture capital.
• Aaron Houghton, co-founder and Board Chairman of iContact Corporation (http://www.icontact.com) and CEO of Preation (http://www.preation.com/). Aaron also co-founded StartupWithMe.com, a free service that matches entrepreneurs with potential co-founders based on compatibility to ensure the highest chance of success.

The Promar Group LLC (www.promar.com), located near the famed Research Triangle Park, NC, was co-founded by Mr. Weiss, who currently serves as Chairman & CEO. Bill has been providing corporate leaders, boards, and high-net-worth investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. His work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies. Clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

William C. Weiss, Chairman & CEO, The Promar Group LLC, has been named to The Duke Eye Center Advisory Board. He will be involved in understanding additional strategic opportunities and facilitating discussions among other leaders who share an interest in bringing these opportunities forward.

The Advisory Board includes individuals who:

• possess the vitality, vision and values necessary to address the challenges, issues and opportunities facing eye-related health care and philanthropy;
• have demonstrated leadership skills;
• have demonstrated an interest in the advancement of eye care.

The Promar Group LLC, located in Cary, NC, near the famed Research Triangle Park, has been successfully providing corporate leaders, boards and high-net-work investors with counsel and execution assistance for more than 30 years. Some of Promar’s clients include Discovery Communications, Ericsson, GE, IBM, Qualcomm, SAS Institute, Steelcase, The Travel Channel, Toshiba and others.

Mr. Weiss’s work has been in diverse geographies including Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North America with expertise in media, telecommunications, information, environmental and emerging technologies.

CEOs, thought leaders, game-changers, investors, foundations and entrepreneurs will gather March 9-11 at We Media Miami to talk about innovation, reinvention, social media, success stories, funding, online business models, the link economy, new ventures and more. William C. Weiss, Chairman and CEO of The Promar Group LLC and Chairman of the Board of iFOCOS, will be a PitchIt! Challenge Judge at We Media Miami ‘10. Learn more or register for the conference at http://wemedia.com/miami/register/.