Bill Spencer is the CEO of Hawaii Oceanic Technology Inc., an ocean science company that is developing open-ocean aquaculture technology for sustainable and environmentally responsible industrial-scale fish farming. He has also been the volunteer president of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association (HVCA) since 1999.

A graduate of Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bill has been a serial entrepreneur since 1979. His ventures have pioneered software applications for server-farm management, groupware computing, and Internet-based medical treatment management.

Bill was a founding member of the Hawaii Ecotourism Association and has served on the executive board of the Hawaii Angels investor network since its inception in 2002. 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).