Bill Cline spent 14 years at Accenture and its predecessor Andersen Consulting as the global managing partner for the capital markets industry practice and client partner for firms such as Goldman Sachs, NYSE, and NASDAQ. As the industry managing partner, he led major engagements such as the launch of new electronic markets such as the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and FXall and the multi-year outsourced management of all trading floor operations for a large, global investment bank. The financial markets industry comprised Accenture professionals around the world and included responsibilities for sales & market offerings, M&A, marketing & media relations, and global training. Few executives have Bill's insights into how and why the financial markets work, its drivers of innovation, competitive differentiation and operational excellence, the commercial marketplace for data, systems and services, and likely trends and implications for the future of the capital markets.

Prior to Accenture, he was a successful entrepreneur and top executive with a history of innovation in the capital markets, first as a principal at Rich Inc. (sold to Reuters in 1986), FD Consulting (sold to CSK in 1993), and finally as a founder of Acai Solutions which is still in operation. He is well known in the industry for the functional design and global launch of Triarch, the first distributed trading and market data messaging architecture. Many Triarch innovations in reliable multicast data distribution, high availability, datafeed processing, and application integration still form important components of Triarch's successor RMDS now marketed by Reuters. While at Reuters following their acquisition of Rich, Bill led the design and launch of Marketfeed 2000, the industry's first high speed datafeed aggregating global equities data from the world's exchanges for high speed, message-based delivery. At FD Consulting, he designed improvements to legacy EAI and messaging techniques to further reduce latency and speed downstream application integration, while the company's TIPS was the financial industry's first commercial ticker plant capable of processing exchange direct datafeeds and handle the associated complexities of corrections processing and times series data.

As managing partner of The Cline Group, he continues to do all of the instruction for our training courses and leads select consulting or research engagements. In addition, he is a council member and educator available for phone and in person consultations through both the Gerson Lehrman Group and Vista Research. Mr. Cline is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and company meetings, and his commentaries on major trends and news in the global capital markets have been featured on CNBC, Bloomberg TV and newswires, NPR Marketplace and Talk of the Nation, Reuters & Dow Jones Newswires, Marketwatch, Wall St. Journal, USA Today, NY Times, Securities Industry News, Information Week, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Wall Street & Technology, and many other leading publications. Our media page maintains a sampling of some interesting interviews and stories; please contact us for interview requests or to inquire about speaking engagements.