Bill Daugherty

Bill Daugherty
CEO
Daugherty Management & Investment

Bill Daugherty is CEO of Daugherty Management & Investment (DMI), a firm focused on making investments in mid-stage growth companies. He currently serves on the boards of ConnectEDU, Creative Circle Media Solutions, TracRac and Mission Critical Wireless.

Prior to launching DMI, Bill founded and served as co-CEO of Interactive Search Holdings, Inc. (ISH) until the company was sold to Ask Jeeves in May, 2004. ISH was Google’s 2nd largest domestic distribution partner behind AOL.

Prior to starting ISH, Bill served as Sr. Vice President of Business Development for the National Basketball Association where he worked from 1991-1999. Bill also served as the Managing Director of the NBA Consumer Products Division.

Bill is a member of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s national board of directors. He also chairs the Center for Entrepreneurship at The Met Center, a charter high school in Providence, Rhode Island where he teaches three mornings each week.

Bill received an MBA from the Harvard Business School (1991) and a BBA from the University of Georgia (1985). He was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Bill and his wife, Tracy, live in Rhode Island with their three children.

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