Bill Dueease

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Bill Dueease earned a Masters degree in IEM from OSU in 1968, after receiving his BS in IE from The University of Alabama. Bill has been the President/founder of The Coach Connection since 2001 assisting people to take control of their lives to discover and get their ideal careers they love, including becoming very successful and productive business owners and leaders. Bill started his chosen career in Petroleum enjoying 5 years of training with Phillips Petroleum, was hired away to be the VP of Petroleum purchases, sales, trading, and distribution for a small refiner named Lajet, Inc. After 5 years Bill started his own oil trading company called Aspen Energy in 1980. Bill was also a co-founder of the Cardrona Ski-Area in New Zealand in 1981. Bill was featured in a 1988 documentary produced by PBS and TV New Zealand describing how Bill and a New Zealand sheep farmer orchestrated the development of a sheep-grazing mountain into the very successful Cardrona NZ Ski-Area. He is one of the original founders of and the first President of the OSU IEM Cowboy Academy. Bill and Chris have been married 36 years, live in Fort Myers, Florida, and are proud parents of Will, 33 and Michele, 30.