Bill Spencer

Profile Information:

Occupation:
Other
Company:
Hawaii Oceanic Technology, Inc.
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
Ocean energy, robotics, telecommunications
About Me:
Bill Spencer is a serial entrepreneur who has led the Hawaii Venture Capital Association since 1999. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His entrepreneurial ventures have pioneered software applications for server farm management, distributed communications, groupware computing and medical treatment management. Bill was a founding member of the Hawaii Ecotourism Association, is on the executive board of Hawaii Angels, an angel investor network founded in 2002, and has served HVCA since 1995. His companies include NET, Inc. a groupware software pioneer, MedSurf a medical treatment management service, Internet Planet a diversified web company doing e-commerce and web radio and Pipelinefx a software company with products for the animation and game industries. He is currently the CEO of Hawaii Oceanic Technology, Inc. a startup company he co-founded doing "green" next gen aquaculture technology. He was recently acknowledged as the Financial Services Champion for 2008 by the U.S. Small Business Administration for Hawaii and Region IX (California, Arizona and Nevada).
Website:
http://www.hioceanictech.com
Secondary Website:
http://www.hvca.org

Comment Wall:

  • Mika Leuck

    Welcome Bill! It was nice meeting you at Unconferenz. We are really excited about your project. I can't wait for guilt free toro :-)

    Mar 18, 2008

  • Bill Spencer

    and mercury free too we hope! Thanks for your kind words and support.

    Mar 18, 2008

  • aaron kagawa

    greetings bill. welcome to the group.

    Mar 18, 2008

  • Bill Spencer

    Mahalo Aaron...see you around the campfire.

    Mar 18, 2008

  • arben

    Hi Bill, one of my clients and actually myself too are currently working on a aquaculture project. Is there any more info about your project, since it fits with some of our future plans.

    Mar 20, 2008

  • Bill Spencer

    The photo on my page says it all for now. Waiting for patent application to be published before going wide with more info.

    Mar 20, 2008

  • Daniel Leuck

    Hi Bill. Any thoughts on John's Making it Easier to Cash Out of Startups post? I'm curious what a pro thinks about how an idea like this would affect Hawaii.

    Apr 14, 2008

  • Bill Spencer

    Here are some more frame grabs from our Aquasphere video. GB Hajim did the CG work. He and his team did a great job, on time and on budget!

    Apr 28, 2008

  • Daniel Leuck

    I keep getting questions from people along the lines of "What are those fantastic buckyball fish farms on TechHui's front page?"

    GB did a great job with these renderings. I can't wait to see the real thing!

    May 8, 2008

  • Dave Takaki

    Hi Bill,

    I'm new to Techhui. Nice pics. I remember when Pat Takahashi was an evangelist on the approach you seem to be taking. I'd like to talk with you sometime. My interest lies in the lower end of the trophic web. I believe that open ocean ranching and farming will eventually produce the feed inputs for the commercial (your ahi) crops, although phyto-photo-krill-small fish production may be the finished product stream for some future operations.

    A hui hou,

    Dave Takaki

    Jun 30, 2008

  • Cameron Souza

    Wow - Those aquaspheres look amazing! Have you built one yet?

    Jul 11, 2008

  • Bill Spencer

    We have decided to change the name of our fish farming system to Oceansphere. We like it better.

    Jul 11, 2008

  • Jeffrey Matsuki

    Hi - sorry for the late reply. I don't have the resources to develop iphone applications at this time. It would be nice to be able to do that one day. Thanks!

    Jul 25, 2008