Bill Coleman

Who is Bill Coleman?

Bill Coleman has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial

leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first

chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world’s leading infrastructure

software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software

firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served

as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his

team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris

operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun’s Professional

Services Division and co-founded Sun’s Federal Division. He holds a

B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S.

degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford

University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of

Colorado.