Bill (F. William) Conner Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Alameda, Ca, Us

Reno, Nevada, Us

Crytica Security is a pioneer in cybersecurity solutions with a focus on revolutionizing threat detection capabilities.

Dallas, Texas, Us

As a staunch supporter of public-private partnerships on cybersecurity, Conner created FWC Consulting to share his expertise, insight, and guidance with global leaders at major financial institutions, enterprises, and governments. Bill is regularly featured in major global publications and television programs including BBC News, Forbes, Financial Times, Security Boulevard, USA Today, The Hill, and the Dallas Business Journal. Conner has also created and hosted “Hacked” for SiriusXM’s business radio. He has been recognized with several awards since starting FWC Consulting, including being awarded SC Media’s 2017 Reboot Leadership Award, named Top 25 Most Influential Executive for 2017, named to the Top Midmarket IT Vendor Executives for 2017, Marketing Computers “Marketer of the Year”, Tech Titans “Corporate CEO of the Year”, Federal Computer’s “Top 100 Award”, and the “National Youth Science Camp Alumnus of the Year.”

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER – July 2022-August 2023JBB Advanced Technologies is an artificial intelligence / blockchain-focused company with the mission of becoming a dominant, worldwide developer of future technologies using renewable energy, which will drastically reshape our world.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

As Executive Chairman of the Board, Bill oversaw the strategic vision of SonicWall’s Board of Directors. This included key initiatives focused on the company’s long-term strategy, mergers and acquisitions, technology innovation, and core value-enhancing objectives.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

As CEO, Bill launched SonicWall as an independent company from Dell (a double carve out.) Under Conner’s leadership, the company focused on transforming revenue models across hardware, software, service, virtual, and cloud. SonicWall expanded its product platform to deliver end-to-end cybersecurity, leading the company to surpass their financial and operational goals through July 2022 (with the financial performance of “Rule of 46,”) and three dividend recaps for shareholders, returning ~1.5 investment. Specific accomplishments under Bill’s leadership include: • Accelerated cloud productization with the innovation of the multi-engine Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) sandbox service with patented Real-Time Deep Memory InspectionTM technology • Record partner registrations of more than 17,000 global channel partners with 5,000 net-new net partners and moved to approximately 70% recurring revenue • Key global service improvements with 80% reduction in wait time and improved customer service • New corporate visual identity and groundbreaking, award-winning brand campaign • Record new product releases, including the introduction of the all-new SonicOS 7 and new Generation 7 product offerings, which can be managed via a single pane of glass through the cloud-native Network Security Manager and Capture Security Center • Recruiting and building executive team from existing and new resources

Scottsdale, Arizona, Us

Francisco Partners acquired Comodo Certification Authority (Comodo CA) and named Conner Executive Chairman of the Board. Conner oversaw the transition in ownership from the Comodo organization as Comodo CA, an industry leader in TLS and SSL digital certificates with more than 200,000 customers across 150 countries. Under Bill’s leadership, the company was rebranded as Sectigo, and expanded the business with organic and inorganic growth to reach a “Rule of 70.” In September 2020, Francisco Partners sold Sectigo to GI Partners.

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Upon taking Silent Circle’s President and CEO role, Bill quickly re-positioned the consumer privacy company into an Enterprise Privacy Platform (EPP) focused business. This included creating the marketing category, building the products, and re-building the sales, service and marketing functions. A significant financial reset and corporate restructure was also required to dramatically improve the P&L, balance sheet, and cash flows of the company. Specific accomplishments under Bill’s leadership include: • completing a Joint Venture buyout• reducing expenses by 76% in 16 months (with a plan in place to deliver another 8% reduction)• improving sales by 83% on an annual basis• completing “C” round investment that provided cash and cleaned up the balance sheet (debt) Concurrently with the financial re-engineering of the company, Bill completely overhauled the entire product suite, including: • re-engineering and delivering a new Blackphone in nine months (award winning) • developing an unified multi-device Silent Phone+ app for iOS and Android (from two separate apps, Silent Text and Silent Phone) • re-building Silent Manager into a true “SaaS” enterprise management capability • migrating from a carrier-based network with internal data centers for external service delivery to a cloud-based AWS infrastructure The significant increase in sales was accomplished by overhauling the consumer sales/distribution team and processes. The customer service function was also reset to handle enterprise client support with the associated metrics required of an enterprise.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Upon assuming Entrust‘s President and CEO role in 2009 as a public company, Conner took Entrust private, resetting corporate priorities to take advantage of new market dynamics in Digital Identities and SaaS to generate organic growth. This shift began in a time when technology sectors, cybersecurity in particular, were undergoing tremendous and tumultuous change. As mobile devices and cloud computing became drivers of organizations’ buying behavior, Conner invested heavily in technological innovations to help organizations realize the potential gains presented by these technologies. Bill expanded Entrust’s digital certificate offerings, drawing on his belief in the strength of digital certificate technology. This culminated in 2013, with Entrust organically growing cloud and SaaS revenue, now accounting for roughly 60% of product revenue, and subscription revenue providing nearly 70% of total revenue. Focusing on security solutions for the cloud and SaaS, Entrust is one of the few software companies to successfully transition from a mainly perpetual-based model to subscription-based revenue stream. By the end of 2013, under Conner’s leadership, Entrust met and exceeded each year’s revenue and EBITDA goals first set by Thoma Bravo in 2009. This strong financial performance helped lead Thoma Bravo to the position of one of the largest private investors in security software and technology, and ultimately delivered a 6.5X return on original investment.

Ca

Reset and returned profitability to global $5 billion in revenues business while building the largest patent portfolio in the category.

Ca

As the inaugural CMO at a global equipment telecommunications company, Conner successfully aligned and integrated corporate strategic communications, branding and marketing globally. Rebranded the company to Nortel Networks and was selected as CMO of the Year in 2000.

Ca

Launched and led new data-centric line of business ($750 million in revenues). Completed $9 billion acquisition of Bay Networks’ IP stack.

Ca

Led the first-ever data and security initiatives serving government and industry. Incubated first-ever enterprise data networks. Incubated, marketed, and carved out the first-ever security product (Entrust).

Ca

Dallas, Tx, Us

Led and turned around $5 billion P&L of outbound services. Led manufacturing supply management of $2 billion portfolio of carrier products. Successfully led labor management efforts with active local, national unions.

Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering