Bill Lyte (Co-Founder)

William F. Lyte has over 19 years in technical and business development assignments with major national consulting engineering firms, including Tetra Tech, Brown and Caldwell and Kennedy/Jenks Consulting. Over this time span, he has focused on the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the overall statewide and national maritime and intermodal sector.

Most recently, he has served as 2008 president of the Harbor Association of Industry and Commerce, a port industrial organization, and chairs the HAIC Development Committee. He serves as Secretary/Treasurer and Technology Committee Chair of the California Marine and Intermodal Transportation System Advisory Council (CALMITSAC). In the maritime research sector, he has participated in a federally-funded research project to develop freight tracking systems.

In the technology arena, Bill began by working for three years with startup technology firms, many from Caltech and JPL. From this, he evolved a methodology for creating technology clusters using existing economic resources (ports, universities, major local businesses and service industry). His “Pasadena Technoplex” established in 1991, has generated 200+ spinoff companies, a venture/angel capital base and new facilities. As a result, he was appointed to chair the County of Los Angeles Business Technology Center (www.labtc.org) for its first four years.

Bill Lyte holds a degree in Environmental Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara, with specialization in satellite imaging (remote sensing) for environmental analysis. He has been extremely involved in this technology area in association with JPL and UCSB on federal transportation research projects since 1999.