Bill Cunningham

Mr. Cunningham has just finished serving as CEO of Diamond Fiber Composites, Inc. He also teaches Entrepreneurship as an adjunct professor at Northern Kentucky University's Entrepreneurial Institute.
Prior to DFC, he also taught at Xavier University and was Director of the Entrepreneurial Center.
Mr. Cunningham spent the first fifteen years focusing on sales and marketing of high technology products with companies such as AT&T, Data General and Apple Computer.
In 1992, he helped launch CollegeView, an interactive CD-ROM venture to provide high impact information on higher education to college bound students.
His fundraising efforts have resulted in over $23 million in equity financing for 4 different companies.
He served as president and trustee of the Greater Cincinnati Venture Association and is currently on the advisory board for NKU’s Entrepreneurial Institute and the Hamilton County Business Center incubator.
Along with Dr. Charles Matthews (UC) and the late Sutton Landry (NKU), he wrote the SmallBizIdeas column for the Cincinnati Post.
He won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Educator of the Year award in June of 1999.
He holds a B.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.