• Acting Managing Director, MIT Entrepreneurship Center
• Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Chairman, MIT Clean Energy Prize
• Award Winning Instructor at MIT
• Managing Director, Entrepreneurship Ventures, Inc.
• Managing Member, Global Entrepreneurship Team
• Master in Management Sciences, MIT, 1994
• Bachelor of Engineering Harvard University, 1980

Bill Aulet is a highly successful business leader with over 25 years of experience in all areas of high technology business operations, product marketing, and financing strategies, from start ups to public companies.

Track Record

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. At the time of his arrival, Viisage was losing $2.4M per quarter and had a market value of approximately $50M. 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. He has taught and worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives at MIT and beyond. 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 is a regular featured speaker at management leadership programs around the world and is also a contributor as an Xconomist on www.xconomy.com.

... “I have seen a lot of money raised by a lot of different people in all market conditions and Bill is the best. He understands the process in public and private fundraising transactions and consistently delivers results.”
- Peter Faubert, CFO, Turbine, Inc., Boston, MA, USA

... “Historically, my focus has been on the operational side of being an entrepreneur. Bill got me to put more emphasis on specific elements on the financial side and address some issues that will facilitate our growth going forward. It is wonderful to have someone with so much experience step us through the process with wisdom, dedication, and a nice sense of humor.”
- Isabelle Bettez, CEO, 8D Technologies, Montréal, Canada

...“Bill walked in and turned around our world in less than 8 hours. He left us with a roadmap that catapulted us from an unknown player to one of the most talked about companies in our space.”
- Jawwad Farid, CEO, Alchemy Technologies, Karachi, Pakistan