William Dinkel

CEO

Austin, Texas, United States19 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led product strategy at Highspot, achieving industry-leading scores.
Co-founded and scaled multiple successful tech startups.
Expert in AI applications for business strategy and value maximization.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI strategy expert with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementBusiness StrategyEntrepreneurshipAi StrategyProduct StrategyCorporate DevelopmentProduct MarketingSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

ManagementStrategyEnterprise SoftwareLeadershipBusiness DevelopmentMobile DevicesAgile MethodologiesCRM

Experience

19 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Simpro software

VP & GM, Delight

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid

Simpro Group is a global provider of field service and workforce management software for trade and service businesses. Through products including Simpro, AroFlo, BigChange, and ClockShark, the group helps businesses manage core operational workflows such as job scheduling, quoting, asset management, and field team coordination.
Simpro Group serves a large and growing customer base worldwide, supporting trade businesses with technology designed specifically for the way they work, from the office to the field.

EntrepreneurshipProduct ManagementBusiness StrategyManagementStrategyEnterprise Software+5

Raya

AI Advisory Board Member

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025 · 4 mos

Raya Advisory is a product, AI, and business strategy consulting and recruiting firm based in Silicon Valley. As a member of the AI Advisory Board, I work with other board members to learn and provide insight into how AI can best be applied to maximize value and impact for businesses and their customers.

AI Strategy

Delight (acquired by simpro group)

Co-founder & CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Entrepreneurship

Highspot

3 roles

Product Strategy & Corp Dev

Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Corp Dev: Built out first M&A practice at Highspot, fielding all inbounds and leading 2 outbound searches
Product Strategy: Evaluated 6 adjacent product categories based on TAM and viability, driving decision to build 3 new products
Drove several board-level initiatives while reporting to Highspot's brilliant co-founder Oliver Sharp

Product StrategyCorporate Development

Senior Director of Product Management

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States

Led a cross-functional team of 80 across PM/UX/Eng, responsible for all data and insight-powered experiences in the Highspot product portfolio
Won the 2022 Forrester Wave for Highspot by improving data & insights score from a middling 3 to an industry-leading 4.8

Product Management

Director of Product Management

Jun 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States

Product Management

Nova ai (acquired by highspot)

Co-founder & CEO

Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Acquired by Highspot in 2020 and became the Engagement Genomics and Meeting Intelligence products
Funded with $2.2MM by Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, and others
Improved B2B seller productivity by structuring historical interactions and recommending actions

Product Management

Dia&co

Advisor

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr

Entrepreneurship

Cloudflare, inc.

Sales & Marketing Internship

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

One of first 30 hires at the company
Started and led first sales team, launched enterprise product
Left to return to grad school

Hewlett-packard

3 roles

Senior Product Marketing Manager (Enterprise Servers & Software)

Apr 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

- Allocated over $1M in annual budget toward marketing collateral and events, led enterprise customer sessions at Executive Briefing Center

Product Marketing

Senior Product Manager

Sep 2008 – Apr 2010 · 1 yr 7 mos

- Served as product leader for $350MM HA / DR / DT / MC software business unit

Product Management

Lead Systems Software Engineer

Sep 2006 – Sep 2008 · 2 yrs

Developed software and led a team in the Availability Clustering Solutions Lab
Products included Serviceguard and other High Availability, Disaster Tolerance/Recovery, and Mission Critical applications

Software Engineering

Applied biosystems

Product Engineering Intern

Jun 2005 – Sep 2005 · 3 mos

- Developed features and enhancements for the software subsystem of Applied Biosystems DNA Sequencer

California polytechnic state university

2 roles

Teaching Assistant - Computer Networks (CPE 464)

Promoted

Sep 2004 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 9 mos

- Instructed over 200 students in the basics of computer networking, including flow control, packet structure, network architecture, layer model, etc

Designer & Web Developer

Feb 2003 – Jun 2005 · 2 yrs 4 mos

- Designed and implemented sites for various on-campus offices, including: Academic Programs Office, Center for Teaching and Learning, Employment Equity Office