William Guttman is the Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Technology and Special Advisor to the Provost at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Chairman of CMU’s education management company, iCarnegie, Inc. He was part of the founding group of Carnegie-Mellon's CyLab – one of the world's largest university-based research initiatives focused on dependability and security in software and networked systems. Guttman helped build a number of technology companies, including Printcafe (NASDAQ:PCAF, acquired by NASDAQ: EFII), which he co-founded and led as Chairman and CEO.

Mr. Guttman previously served in various advisory capacities for the United States, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD. He is the author of Pacific Asian Capital Markets (OECD/Oxford & IBH), among numerous other publications and patents. He completed his Masters and Doctoral degrees at Balliol College, Oxford University, where he was a British Council Scholar.