Bill has owned, founded and funded numerous businesses in the high tech field, with particular interest in information systems and imaging. He is a pioneer in imaging, having been a principal and later Chairman of IMAX Corporation from 1970 to 1995.  Under his and his partners' leadership, IMAX grew into a global entertainment company with production and distribution of over 100 films and 100 theatre operations in 18 countries.  He was also a co-founder and former President of SCIEX Corporation, a provider of high-speed and ultra-trace analytical instrumentation with yearly sales exceeding $600 million. SCIEX has become a core asset of MDS Inc., a health and management company with a market capitalization of $2 billion.  As Chairman and principal of Business Arts Inc., a high-tech incubation and investment firm, he supports its funding and co-development activities. The company is committed to the creation and development of transforming corporations focused upon building sustainable and breakthrough shareholder value. Its investment activities included Magic Online (a Canadian online pioneer), Fortune Minerals, Cedara Software (a medical imaging company), as well as GEDEX™ (a geological imaging and discovery company), for which he held the position of Chairman from its inception until his recent appointment as Chairman Emeritus. He has been honoured with a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, was recognized with admission into the Order of Canada as an Officer and most recently was inducted into the University of Toronto Engineering Hall of Distinction.