William McKnight, President

William functions as Strategist, Lead Enterprise Information Architect, and Program Manager for sites worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, data quality and operational business intelligence.  Many of his clients have gone public with their success stories. 

William is a Southwest Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, a frequent best practices judge, has authored more than 150 articles and white papers and given over 150 international keynotes and public seminars.  His teams' implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won Best Practices awards. William is a former IT VP of a Fortune 50 company, a former engineer of DB2 at IBM and holds an MBA.

William has overcome numerous complex data acquisition/ETL (real-time, sourcing, transforming, syndicated data, integration, cleansing, POS/CDR/RFID source) issues and has hands-on experience with numerous leading OLAP/BI/ETL tools.  His breath of experience with information management product set includes internal product development (source code), IT development, management, analyst and consulting roles.  He has produced dozens of analytic models in production worldwide.  

William has been involved in information management his entire career.  William takes personal responsibility for all engagements and will only take on projects where he can assure client success.  He knows what good work is, having built numerous end client successes, ranging from $100M companies to numerous companies in the Fortune 50.  His unparallelled exposure to the market infuses ideas into client programs.

William founded and grew McKnight Associates, Inc. during 1998-2005 to placement in the Inc. 500, the Dallas 100 (twice) and the Collin (county) 60.  He sold the company to a public firm in 2005.