Murray William's Biography

Murray Williams - Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Williams is a CPA and began his career in public accounting with KPMG.  He was a manager in KPMG's assurance practice managing a team of over 20 professionals specializing in financial services with an emphasis on public offerings, private financings and mergers/acquisitions.  Mr. Williams resigned from KPMG in 1997 to become one of the founding members of the Buy.Com, Inc., which grew to be the 2nd largest e-commerce company in the world during his tenure.  Mr. Williams developed the finance, legal, business development and human resource departments of Buy.com.  Buy.com enjoyed its greatest success while Mr. Williams was its highest-ranking financial officer.  Mr. Williams was responsible for securing over $225 million in private financing and was the primary driver in the initial public offering process that generated proceeds of an additional $192 million.  Mr. Williams obtained vast international business experience managing Buy.Com's expansion into Europe, Canada and Australia.  In addition, he successfully completed three acquisitions for Buy.Com and was responsible for their expansion into eleven of its core product categories.  After leaving Buy.Com in August of 2001, Mr. Williams became an active entrepreneur, creating and investing in numerous companies, and founded FA Corp, a consulting firm providing financial consulting services to various companies.  Mr. Williams received degrees in both Accounting and Real Estate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.