Bill founded Strategic Direct in 1990 after holding senior account management positions at well-known sales promotion agencies in Chicago and Westport CT.

With Fujifim USA as a founding client, Strategic Direct has built the blue-chip client list including these nationally recognized brands and clients.

Bill is an accomplished metal sculptor – 257sculpture.com – and his wife is a painter. They spend their leisure time traveling and enjoying their grandchildren.

Leah joined TechScholar as the Director of Account Services in 2008.

She provides the leadership to support the design, development, and delivery of projects for Strategic Direct, and directly manages the TechScholar platform and customer base.

Before joining Strategic Direct Leah was a Senior Project Manager at IMAIRA Digital Media and Learning. Prior to that, she worked in a series of progressively responsible positions in sales and marketing at People magazine in the Time Warner headquarters in New York City.

She enjoys spending her free time with her family and two children.

Belinda is currently located in Sao Paulo, Brasil. She has extensive experience as a fractional CTO specializing in eCommerce project management, UX, and business data analysis. Alongside her work with TechScholar and Strategic Direct, she currently provides fractional tech leadership, business strategy, growth scaling and data analysis for eCommerce brands.

Partner in 10 Speed Labs and st0ategic advisor to Strategic Direct, Josh Carey is a key member of the project management team 10 Speed Labs is a full-service digital media agency specializing in the design, development, and marketing of cutting-edge web and mobile applications. Josh provides poject management, business development and account management for custom web application development.

Miguel is currently located in Uruguay, he has been with Strategic Direct since 2012. He supervises a team of 4-6 developers and designers that implement new features for TechScholar and Strategic Direct based on client requests.

He is currently an adjunct professor at Universidad de la República in the Computing Institute of the School of Engineering. Furthermore, Miguel has extensive experience in IT & business intelligence consulting, software, ETL & data warehouse development. He is skilled in product, project, and operations management and works as a principal consultant with Ocalitus and Sercol. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

For over 15 years Vicki has managed the Strategic Direct, Inc, and TechScholar LLC offices, books, remote staffing and in general kept both companies on track. Her friendly and positive attitude is often the entry point for anyone calling, for any reason.

Using a combination of on-site and remote management Vicki has been providing bookkeeping services to a variety of clients based in NYC, northern New Jersey, and the suburban counties north of NYC.

A graduate of Pace University, she earned her degree in accounting in 2001 while also working full time.

In her spare time, she enjoys creating greeting cards and playing with her chocolate lab, Cocoa. She loves to travel and particularly loved Italy and plans to return soon.