# Bill Schild

> Bill Schild is the CEO of Aqfer, a marketing data Platform-as-a-Service built for the advertising and marketing ecosystem. Appointed in August 2025, he is a 20-plus-year ad-tech operator known for scaling growth-stage companies and steering them to acquisitions, with prior leadership runs at Viant, Beeswax (acquired by FreeWheel/Comcast), Channel Factory, and WeWork. At Aqfer he is positioning the company as the data infrastructure layer for the GenAI era.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at Aqfer
- **Organizations:** Aqfer, Channel Factory, Beeswax, FreeWheel, WeWork, Viant Technology
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MBA, Finance and Marketing, Columbia University
- **Known for:** Helped scale the Viant Advertising Cloud into growth that culminated in the 2016 sale to Time Inc., As CRO of Beeswax, guided the company to record growth and profitability leading to acquisition by FreeWheel (Comcast), Appointed CEO of Aqfer alongside the launch of the industry's first remote, serverless MCP (Model Context Protocol) server

## Career timeline

- **2012-2015** — Senior Vice President, Global Marketing at Viant Technology
- **2015-2018** — Executive Vice President at Viant; helped drive growth of the Viant Advertising Cloud that led to the 2016 sale to Time Inc.
- **2018-2019** — VP, Global Enterprise Key Accounts at WeWork
- **2019-2021** — Chief Revenue Officer at Beeswax, guiding record growth and profitability ahead of acquisition by FreeWheel (a Comcast company)
- **2021-2023** — Continued at FreeWheel post-acquisition, driving demand-side platform growth and market share
- **2023** — Appointed General Manager, Americas at Channel Factory
- **2025** — Named Chief Executive Officer of Aqfer (August 12, 2025) as co-founder Dan Jaye moved to CTO

## Achievements

- Helped scale the Viant Advertising Cloud into growth that culminated in the 2016 sale to Time Inc.
- As CRO of Beeswax, guided the company to record growth and profitability leading to acquisition by FreeWheel (Comcast)
- Appointed CEO of Aqfer alongside the launch of the industry's first remote, serverless MCP (Model Context Protocol) server

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Named CEO of Aqfer as the company launched its remote MCP server with a 'ZeroCopy' architecture connecting AWS, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Databricks.

## Links

- Website: https://aqfer.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-schild-9b66/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/aqferinc

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