Bill Haney is a multifaceted individual who has made significant contributions in the fields of filmmaking, invention, and entrepreneurship. As a writer, director, and producer, he has won numerous prestigious awards, including The Gabriel Prize, A Silver Hugo, The Earthwatch Award, A Marine Conservation Award, and an Amnesty International Award. He has also been chosen as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and has received a Humanitarian Award from Harvard Medical School, a Distinguished Service Award from the Senior Olympics, the Slow Food Prize, a Genesis Award, an Achievement Award from the ACLU, and has been repeatedly nominated for a NAACP Image Award.
Bill's portfolio as a filmmaker includes award-winning documentaries on socially important subjects such as coal mining and worker exploitation, as well as his work as writer/producer on Tim Disney's civil rights drama, American Violet. His latest work, Jim Allison: Breakthrough, celebrates the imagination and resilience of scientists who push the frontiers of knowledge. The documentary features the extraordinary journey of immunologist Jim Allison, from his childhood in foster care to his groundbreaking achievements in cancer research.
As an inventor and entrepreneur, Bill has founded or co-founded more than a dozen technology companies. Presently, he is the co-founder and CEO of Dragonfly Therapeutics, a biotech company developing drugs to cure cancer, and co-founder and CEO of Skyhawk Therapeutics, a biotech company developing drugs to cure RNA-splicing based diseases. He has also served on various non-profit and government boards, including the NRDC, US EPA, US DOE, Harvard's Kennedy School, and MIT.
Bill is a founder of World Connect, a non-profit partnered with the Peace Corps, dedicated to improving the health and welfare of mothers and children in the developing world. The organization has launched programs in more than 1000 villages in 24 countries.
