Bill is an experienced authority of every aspect of the data center ecosystem, including finance, technology, infrastructure, and operations. Bill has been in the Data Center industry for over 20 years. His holistic understanding of all aspects of this sector offers a perspective and authority illustrated by both the business relationships he has developed and revenue he has generated. Bill and his teams have leased over 50 MW of datacenter space and power. 

Bill began his career by spending five years in the United States Navy as a Search and Rescue Swimmer during operation Desert Shield working directly for the Admiral of the 6^th Fleet and forward deployed in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf which provided experience with mission critical operations, quality controls and technology. That background proved ideal in the eight years he spent with Imprint Data Center solutions, a data center design build company.  Bill served in a variety of capacities of increasing responsibility, culminating in vice president of sales.  He helped launch 365 Main Data Centers into 17 Markets and led teams across the country. Hethen went on to Byte grid Data Centers as VP of sales and GM leading the sales efforts and building a 400,000 sf data center in downtown Cleveland.  Bill was Vice President of Sales for QTS Data Centers where he was hired top re-lease, staff and launch the new QTS Chicago.  Bill is currently the CEO of Cofluence, LLC which is a data center consultancy practice that specializes in site selection, leasing, power and fiber optic networks. 

Bill is the founding member of ONLIGHT Aurora a community fiber services provider developed to help improve economic development and business climate in Chicago.  He was the Chairman of the Board of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce. He is currently President of the Chicago AFCOM Chapter and was awarded Chapter of the year in 2021 and has been Communications Director of the 7x24 Lake Michigan Region Chapter for 4 years.  He is a proud Infrastructure Mason and a member of the Veteran’s and Climate Accord Committees. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Cofluence, LLC a data center consultancy based in Chicago. 

A California native, Bill is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and The United States Navy Search and Rescue School in Jacksonville Fl. and lives in Geneva, Illinois with his wife Elizabeth and their 15 year-old twins Cameron and Caroline