About Bill

Bill straddles the art and technology worlds, leaving muddy tracks and baffled audiences in both.

A global revenue orchestration practice lead at Slalom Consulting, Bill advises marketing leaders of the Fortune 500. His clients include Amazon Web Services, Sandals Resorts, Qlik Technologies, Fidelity Investments, and numerous life sciences and hospital networks.

As a designer, he worked for some of the world’s great ad agencies including Leo Burnett, J.Walter Thompson, DMB&B and EuroRSCG. He was an art director for The New York Times, and accidentally started a SaaS company before there was a name for it.

He has helped build several products including Web Fonts, an Adobe InDesign extension, and an Android app installed in a billion devices worldwide. His most important work is the Voiceboard project, a free, paper-based tablet to help nonverbal patients communicate.

He apparently refers to himself in the third person and tries to impersonate Whispering Bill Anderson, the country singer, and Bill Anderson the CEO of Bayer. Neither have been successful.


Talks and Publications

Forbes Magazine

Marketing Leaders Are Chasing GenAI ROI, But Most Are Missing The Mark

Digital Journal

The three keys to personalized customer experiences at massive scale

Color: Messages and Meanings

A Pantone Color Resource by Leatrice Eiseman

What is Branding? 

Essential Design Handbooks series by Matthew Healey

Design DNA

300 International Logos Deconstructed by Mathew Healey

Best of Screen Printing Design

A design resource by Lisa Walker

 

Speaking engagements

Letterchats

Collaborative GenAI tools for designers: April 2025

Letterchats

The GenAI revolution: We’ve been through this before July 2024

Granite State Code Camp

How to be a great consulting developer Nov 2020

Mauticon2020

Anatomy of a demand generation campaign Nov 2020

Mauticon 2020

Marketing automation, a view from the consulting trenches Nov 2020

Mauticon 2020

What I learned on my first implementation Nov 2020

Mauticast #14

Why the Martech Council loves Mautic (feat. Bill Anderson)

My speaker profile on Sessionize

Bill's Sessions

  • What makes a great consulting developer?

  • What I learned from my first implementation

  • Marketing Automation: A view from the consulting trenches

  • Anatomy of a demand generation campaign