Ethnologist, Musicologist, Antique Tribal Art collector, and dealer. Bill's interests evolve around the forgotten cultures and customs of the South Pacific, Indonesia, South American and North American. Also Bill's fieldwork among the Shuar of Equador and Peru has helped him have much knowledge about this Tribal Group. His expertise has been drawn upon by National Geographic's documentary production unit for a series Headhunting, Human Sacrifice, and Canabulisum as well as by numerous museums and researchers.

Through an interest in disappearing Andean-Amazonian tribal rituals, Bill has financed and led five expeditions into Ecuador and Peru from 1995 to 2001, researching traditional naturopathic healings and related rituals. Focusing on the Shuar tribe of Ecuador, made famous for their past custom of shrinking heads, Bill has amassed the most extensive Shuar library and archival photos in existence, including a collection of shrunken human heads. Through this Bill had also taken an interest in other cultures and collected early ethnographic material from the Native cultures of North America, South America, South Pacific, Dayak of Borneo, Naga of the Highlands of India and Batak of Sumatra.

IN 1998, Bill purchased Canada's oldest museum, the Niagara Falls Museum. Established in 1827, the museum held title to the name The Explorers Club in Canada. Bill donated the name to The Explorers Club in New York City. Amongst the collections of his newly acquired museum was a whale skeleton - which Bill is arranging to be donated to the Royal Ontario Museum for their new whale display - as well as nine Egyptian mummies that had been in the museum's collection since 1861. Bill sold all nine of them to the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, were it was confirmed that one of the mummies was that of Pharaoh Rameses I. Rameses I will be returned to Egypt later this year.

Bill is also an antique tribal art dealer and he has set records at Sotheby's for sale in Polynesian material with the sale of the Hawaiian feather cape and the Austral Islands necklace from the Niagara Fall Museum. Bill continues to find great material through much traveling and chasing down old collections and much communication with other dealers.