Author William Colleran

Bill Colleran is the Chief Executive Officer of Adronite. A veteran technology leader with over 35 years of experience as an engineer, investment banker, entrepreneur, and CEO, Bill has built his career taking deep technical innovation to market at scale. He served as CEO of Impinj (NASDAQ: PI) for nearly 14 years, leading the RFID pioneer from early-stage venture to a publicly traded category leader, and previously founded and led Innovent Systems, the developer of the world’s first CMOS Bluetooth chip, which was acquired by Broadcom for nearly $500 million. He has also served as CEO of Lumotive, a programmable optics company specializing in Light Control Metasurface technology, and AnswerDash, an AI-powered self-service support platform; earlier in his career he was an investment banker in Merrill Lynch’s technology group and a chip designer at TRW. Bill holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from USC, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Notre Dame, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. At Adronite, Bill brings a rare combination of deep engineering expertise, public-company operating experience, and category-creation instinct to lead the company into its next stage of growth.