Bill Ponton’s early interest in electronics led him first to a career as an engineer, then into technical sales and later into raising capital for promising entrepreneurs. He attended Rutgers University 1973-1977 receiving a BS in Electrical Engineering, then started his career as an engineer at Kearfott Corporation, working to adapt solid-state camera systems to inertial guidance platforms for enhanced star-sighting navigation. Throughout the 1980s, he was on the staff of Princeton University’s Plasma Physics Lab and worked as part of a team developing the data acquisition system for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). He went on to work for instrumentation manufacturer, Kinetic Systems, managing sales for customers in physics research and military applications.

After receiving an MBA from New York University in 1998, he farmed out his newly acquired talent to CEOs of startups in the booming tech sector, where he assisted in developing business plans and raising venture capital. Bill met with success in his new role and invested alongside founders in several companies in the digital video space, including Vivid Technology, Vertasent, and AnySource Media.

Bill is skeptical by nature and rarely will let any claim go unquestioned. This brought him into conflict with the ideology of the environmental movement, which propagated a string of hoaxes in the 1970s and 80s culminating in its biggest one to date, the global-warming swindle. Bill has written many articles for RealClearEnergy, WUWT, and American Thinker on the economic reality behind fraudulent net-zero claims and on the culture and origins of the environmental movement.