Wingspan Business Consulting
Wingspan Principals and Associates
Bill Kennedy
- Current Chairman of the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce
- Current Chairman of the Planning Commission for the City of Santa Clarita
- Current head of Wingspan Business Consulting
- Current member of the College of the Canyons Foundation Board
- Executive Director and past President of the Golden West Cultured Marble Assoc.
- Publisher of InTouch, a quarterly trade newsletter serving the cast polymer industry
- 2006 President and current Board Member of the Valley Industrial Association (VIA)
- Current Board Member, Habitat for Humanity of San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys
- Held several C-level positions and board of director seats in a variety of industries
- Strategic Planner, USAF
- Member, USAF Comprehensive Base Development Task Group
- Member, Congressionally Mandated Mobility Study Group
- Member, National Security Council Task Group on Counterterrorism
- Adjunct Professor of Management, University of Phoenix
- U.S. Air Force Colonel, Retired
- F-4 Phantom II combat pilot (176 missions, Republic of Viet Nam), instructor pilot (IP), and check pilot (he was General Chuck Yeager's instructor pilot in the F-4)
- Commander and platform lecturer of the world’s largest technical training center at Keesler Air Force Base
- Bachelor of Science, U. S. Air Force Academy
- Master of Political Science, Auburn University
- MBA studies, University of Utah
- Advanced Studies in Military Science, Air Command & Staff College, National Defense University
- Post graduate studies in Economics and World Affairs, National Defense College of Canada
- Bill has lived in the United Kingdom, Canada, Korea, Vietnam, Germany, and The Philippines (during The Philippine Revolution of 1986—Bill was responsible for getting President Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos and their family safely out of the country)
- Bill's hobbies are flying and driving his 1974 Triumph TR-6 sports car
- He is married and has two daughters and two grandsons