Bill Townsend

About Bill Townsend

I have been so fortunate to have met and worked with so many outstanding people over the decades. Thank you all for contributing to my personal and professional growth.The Career \"Defining Moment\" for me was 1988 sitting in Linda Stegeman\'s office on the 6th floor of the old Carnation Company (Nestle) and her telling me that I needed to become an \"Expert\" at something. My thought was how in the world could I become an expert at a 100 year old world class company? And one day, sitting in my cube looking at the AC Nielsen hard copy reports, I had that \"AHA\" moment that changed my life. First it was a canned cat food flavor analysis with those reports, later at Hunt-Wesson (ConAgra) as one of the world\'s heaviest users of IRI online data and then Sales at IRI (Circana)- it was all about the data. I am proud and excited to say that my latest venture CollegeRover.com is now fully launched. Rover was created out of frustration with the College Search Process for my daughter Jennifer. Students and parents should spend time evaluating information, not looking for information. We have solved that problem with Christian Boswell with the the team at bfw avertising in Boca Raton and I have built the pre-eminent data source about US Colleges and Universities. Fast, Easy to Use and Intuitive - please check out HMU if you have questions or comments or just want to catch up!Best Regards,Bill

Experience

1. Founder CEO

   College Rover

   Aug 2020 — Present · Memphis, TN, US

   CollegeRover.com is the leader in providing information about US Colleges, Universities, Majors and Degrees for high school students, parents/guardians, high school college counselors and other educators. More and better data, easy to use, fast and secure - College Rover outperforms competitive services such as Niche, SCOIR, Naviance and US News & World Report.

Education

• Rhodes College

  Bachelor's degree, International Relations and Affairs

  1981 — 1984

• University of Southern California

  Master of Arts (MA), International Relations and Affairs

  1984 — 1986