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Bill Morrow has spent more than 15 years founding and leading companies in successfully delivering valuable products and services to underserved markets. This focus is driving CSIdentity's efforts to deliver identity protection solutions that offer truly comprehensive protection at prices below today's narrowly focused competitive offerings. Prior to CSIdentity, Bill founded Grande Communications in late 1999 with a vision of providing bundled phone, Internet and cable services to businesses and residents first along the Austin/San Antonio corridor, then in other Texas markets. In addition to leading Grande's funding efforts, with total equity raised passing $500M and setting a Texas record in venture capital investment, Morrow set the tone for Grande's award-winning corporate culture initiatives, which strive to create gratifying experiences for customers, employees and the communities where Grande does business. Before starting Grande, Morrow helped found and served as a board director of ClearSource, Inc., a telecommunications company offering bundled services to residents and businesses in several second-tier Texas markets. Grande, with Morrow at the helm, acquired ClearSource in June 2002. Prior to working with companies in his home state of Texas , Morrow served as president, chief executive officer, director and vice chairman for Georgia-based Knology, a bundled service provider. While at Knology, Morrow raised approximately $300 million in capital and grew the company's revenue by eight times, customer connections by six times and constructed homes by five times. Previously he worked more than a decade in various capacities at Central and South West Corporation (NYSE - Electric Company), including marketing, area management, governmental and regulatory affairs, ventures and business development. Morrow founded Central and South West Corporation subsidiary CSW Customer Choice and Control and later C3 Communications in 1993. Customer Choice and Control pioneered advanced utility management and consumer control of electricity over deep fiber broadband networks from 1994 to 1997. Morrow was appointed in September, of 2005 by the Governor of Texas to serve on the Texas Emerging Technology Fund board. The $200 m fund is to be invested in emerging technology and businesses in Texas. He sits on the University of Texas San Antonio Development Board and was for the past two years Vice Chair of the Communications Committee at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce and a Board member of the Austin Economic Development Corporation. Morrow received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from UTSA and was awarded the UTSA Alumni Association Alumnus of the Year award in 2002. He earned both the San Antonio Business Journal's "40 Under 40" award in 2001 and the 2002 Austin Under 40 award for community service in the business and finance category. Morrow has been a finalist four of the last five years in the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year contest in Austin. orrow and his wife are deeply concerned about children's welfare and commit time and money to the Area Food Banks and Any Baby Can foundations. Bill and his wife, Traci, have six-year-old twin boys. | 