 Bill Feid Mr. Feid is a Managing Partner at Pacific Rim Partners. Mr. Feid is responsible for fund-raising and transactional negotiations, as well as investing in and managing portfolio ventures.Most recently President and Chief Executive Officer of RealLegal, LLC, a leading supplier of software to the legal community, Mr. Feid has been at the forefront of innovative business for the past 20 years. Mr. Feid is also founder and former President and Chief Executive Officer of Law.com, the largest destination website for the legal community in the world. Mr. Feid engineered the sale of Law.com to American Lawyer Media, the largest legal publisher in the United States.
Mr. Feid began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co., where he helped found and grow Anderson's Chicago High-Tech Practice. Mr. Feid's 11 years at Andersen were dedicated primarily to consulting on behalf of entrepreneurial businesses. Mr. Feid was also instrumental in developing firm-wide methodologies for business valuations and strategic planning. Mr. Feid also functioned on behalf of World Headquarters firm wide heading assignments in Malaysia and Europe. He later joined Efficient Market Services, Inc., a leading information service provider for supermarkets and consumer packaged goods, as Executive Vice President of finance and operations. At EMS, Mr. Feid established strategic relationships with AC Nielsen and Mitsubishi Corporation, introduced EMS into South East Asia, and raised substantial equity capital, all of which led to the company's success. Mr. Feid left EMS to found another start-up, Firefly Greeting, LLC. As President and Chief Executive Officer, he turned Firefly into a leading supplier of online relationship management programs utilizing greeting cards and negotiated the sale of the business to Hallmark. Mr. Feid is a CPA with a BS in Accounting and Industrial Technologies from Illinois State University and currently serves on the Boards of Directors for four companies. |