Hank Williams

Blogger, Brainstormer, Business adviser, Business leader, Business mentor, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Inventor, Technologist, Writer/Editor

Hank is a technologist and entrepreneur currently serving as CEO of Kloudco, a startup developing a new cloud information management platform. Hank writes at his own blog, whydoeseverythingsuck.com about data storage, the semantic web, system scaling, and intellectual property in the internet era. Before Kloudco, Hank operated Elroy Networks, a development and consulting company focused on Internet media related technologies. From 1998 to 2001, Hank was Founder, Chairman, and CEO of ClickRadio, one of the Internet's first interactive radio services. Along with raising $40 million dollars in capital, as lead architect, he conceived many of the concepts and technologies that that underpin the current interactive music space. In 1995, Hank co-founded Cybersonic, a technology consulting firm which provided Internet development and broadcasting services to most of the major music labels, and pioneered the concept of large scale live cybercasts. From 1988 to 1994, Hank served as President and CEO of Pastel, where he developed DayMaker, a best selling and award winning personal information manager.

Repairing the state of education in america and developing solutions to the reduced interest in and capacity for critical thought. Mentoring young entrepreneurs. Creating tools that change the world.

A Google search for "black scientists" should not yield George Washington Carver as the first hit in 2012.

Business Planning and Strategy, entrepreneurship, Product Design & Development, Thinking Big

I was invited to TED on the heels of the controversy around the CNN documentary Black In America. I was featured in the documentary and spoke out about some of the issues contained therein both on my blog, and in an editorial on CNN. The visibility brought me to the attention of the TED organizers. And while I greatly appreciate the invitation it highlighted the problem of a lack of sufficient diversity even within such a fantastic and progressively focused event and organization as TED. And so my participation in this event has inspired me to work on a new platform to both highlight existing great innovators of color, and to inspire the next generation. A Google search for "black scientists" should not yield George Washington Carver as the first hit in 2012. While our ideas are, at this point, "green shoots", we need supporters who believe in such a mission. If that's you, find me.

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