Bill Aulet

Bill Aulet, senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and Entrepreneur in Residence at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, has 25 years of experience in technology business operations and financing. He started his career at IBM and then ran two private companies, Cambridge Decision Dynamics and SensAble Technologies. Most recently he helped engineer a dramatic turnaround at Viisage Technology as its Chief Financial Officer. He has created hundreds of millions of dollars of shareholder value by building focused, fundamentally sound businesses. He has raised $100 million in institutional financing via private placements and public offerings. Mr. Aulet now works with students and start-up companies to build strategies and operating plans that will create sustainable value. He has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a graduate degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was a Sloan Fellow.

Recent posts and comments

• The Next Big Thing in Energy Innovation and Investing? Let’s Talk Water

  Energy innovation and investing are exploding right now. Technological breakthroughs are seen as perhaps the greatest hope to solving our dire energy challenge. However, what is often overlooked is the link... Read more »

• Commenting on: Maine Wind Farm Gets Green Light, But Project Leader Says Cleantech Efforts Face Too Many Snarls

  Bill said: Seems a bit like Cape Wind North. This is a clear case of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard)... Read more »

• Commenting on: NSTAR, Energy Department Offer $200K Prize to Energy Entrepreneurs

  Bill said: Wade, just one very important correction. To clarify, I believe there is lots of money out there now for... Read more »

• What’s Wrong With Energy Investing? Part II

  I had the good fortune to receive a substantial amount of feedback on my first post on this subject a few weeks ago. The feedback was productive and helped to clarify... Read more »

• Commenting on: VC Varsity: The Best Athletes on Boston’s Private-Equity Circuit—the Roster

  Bill said: Nice job chasing down this vital info. Mannion, Forlenza and Scarpa deserve some special recognition for the Basketball Methuselah factor... Read more »

• Commenting on: VC Varsity: The Best Athletes on Boston’s Private-Equity Circuit

  Bill said: Nice job chasing down this vital info. Mannion, Forlenza and Scarpa deserve some special recognition for the Basketball Methuselah factor... Read more »

• Commenting on: Directing Clean-Energy Investment in Massachusetts: An Xconomy Debate

  Bill said: Just to clarify the above quote on the “small pie” for renewables, renewables is not a small pie at all... Read more »

• What’s Wrong with Energy Investing? Part I

  I just returned to Kendall Square after spending a spectacular weekend at Squam Lake in New Hampshire and at the forefront of my mind—and what I could not shake over the... Read more »

• Commenting on: Getting Disruptive Ideas to Market

  Bill said: I just wanted to add to John’s solid discussion on what it takes to get innovation in the market place... Read more »