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William H. Morton, Jr. is a Managing Director of iQVP. He has more than thirty years experience in merchant banking activities, inclusive of holding executive management positions (President, CEO, COO and other) in multiple corporate ventures.
In the early 1970's, Mr. Morton was an officer at the First National Bank of Boston (Bank Boston) and later became a member of the Investment Banking firm of Lazard Freres & Co. in New York. During the early 1980's, Mr. Morton became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of HMS Marine, Inc. and acquired, with partners, Aquasport, Inc., Alcort Sailboats Inc. and King Marine Electronics. These companies were marine-related enterprises engaged in the manufacturing of sport/fishing powerboats fifteen to thirty feet in length, sailboats (producer of the well known Sunfish and Force Five models) and high quality marine electronics (once part of King Avionics, Bendix and Allied Signal), respectively.
Mr. Morton was also: Co-founder and President of Morton/Russell Associates, Inc., a franchise of the HQ office services enterprise (Headquarters Company, Inc.); Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Coastal Aviation, a company established for the purpose of importing Aerospatiale general aviation aircraft into the U.S.(Coastal negotiated multi-year contracts with Aerospatiale and became respected for providing turnkey programs for flight schools and individual general aviation pilots). Mr. Morton was also Founder and President of the Risor Corporation, a private investment company, and a Co-founder of Corporate Health Examiners, a company specializing in providing annual physical and dental examinations to corporate executives in New York. Corporate Health Examiners became part of Life Extension Institute and the combined entity is now known as Executive Health Group).
Since 1995, Mr. Morton has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Memry Corporation, an advanced materials company engaged in the business of developing, manufacturing and marketing semi-finished materials, formed components and sub-assembled products utilizing shape memory alloys, primarily nickel titanium ("nitinol"). Memry Corporation sells its products and services primarily to the medical device, telecommunications, aerospace and automotive industries. The Company has locations in Brookfield, Connecticut; Menlo Park, California and Herk-de-Stad, Belgium.
Mr. Morton is presently a director of Deck House, Inc. Past directorships include; Aircraft Sales Corporation, Alcort Sailboats, American Business Assistance, Aquasport, Coastal Aviation, Corporate Health Examiners, ExcelAire Service, Inc., EZPetshop.com (now PetCareRx.com), HMS Marine, King Marine Electronics, Morton/Russell Associates and the Risor Corporation.
Mr. Morton was a trustee of the Holderness School in Plymouth, New Hampshire for eighteen years. Mr. Morton holds a BA from Middlebury College. Mr. Morton is currently instrument rated for piloting multi-engine fixed wing aircraft. | 