Experience
William Strauss brings more than thirty-five years of strategic planning, project management, data analysis, and modeling experience into the company’s stock of knowledge capital. He also compliments his business background with real-world hands-on technical skills. Bill's professional history includes executive positions as director, president, and senior vice president, as well as positions as a senior analyst, field coordinator, and operations manager. He has an MBA (specializing in Finance) and a PhD (Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science, and Economics). Bill is the President and founder of FutureMetrics, LLC, a financial and economic forecasting consultancy. He is also a Director in Maine Energy Systems. Bill is a member of the New England Complex Systems Institute, a member of the Eastern Economics Association, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and serves as Executive Consultant for Aviation Management Systems, Inc. Bill is the President of Lightval Mines, Limited, a Canadian junior mining company. Bill also serves on the Sunday River ski area Advisory Committee. He recently spent 8 months serving on the Governor's Wood-to-Energy task force and was one of the principal authors of the final report. He is also a full Professor at the White Mountains Community College Bill loves to ski and he has logged more than a million vertical feet heli-skiing the mountains of western Canada.