Bill Sproull joins the IASP Think Tank

IASP is delighted to announce the appointment of a new member of the Advisory Council, our asssociation’s think tank.

Bill Sproull (USA), is joining its ranks, to share his decades of experience alongside existing members Deepanwita Chattopadhyay (India), Paul Jansen (the Netherlands) and Jernej Pintar (Slovenia), under president and former IASP CEO Luis Sanz.

Bill is President and CEO of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce (RCC), its North Texas membership affiliate Tech Titans, and the Richardson Economic Development Partnership (REDP). He has led the REDP’s revitalization strategy of Richardson’s Telecom Corridor area economy through a focus on industry and technology diversification, and built Tech Titans into the region’s leading tech association.  He has twice led the Chamber’s successful effort to achieve top-level 5 Star accreditation from the rigorous US Chamber Accreditation Program, an achievement that only 1% of all Chambers in the US earn. 

He has also been a leader in state, national and international economic and technology development.  He served for 6 years on the board of the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, a half-billion investment fund, which he chaired during 2010-2011, and was elected Chairman of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), the world’s largest association for professional economic developers, in 2014, and served on its board for 10 years.

Previously he held senior economic development positions at the Dallas Regional Chamber, the McKinney Economic Development Corporation, and at the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri. Sproull is a graduate of Baylor University, where he received a BA degree with a double major in Economics and Political Science. 

The IASP Advisory Council is a consultative body that helps the Board of Directors and the CEO to manage our knowledge and formulate new strategies; to find out more about its members and the indepenent experts who work with them to help carry out a range of projects, consultancy, or ad hoc studies, please visit https://www.iasp.ws/about-us/iasp-think-tank