Bill Whiteside, who is the oldest of six kids, grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs,

After graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Management, he spent 14 years in food marketing – first with Mrs. Paul’s, which most people know for their fish sticks and onion rings – and then for a small family-owned dairy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

While working at the dairy, he purchased a software package to help forecast and plan sales and production of the company’s  ice cream products. He was so impressed with the software, he quit that job to start his own business to sell the software. During the course of his thirty-years selling software, he worked with customers as diverse as Under Armour, Maidenform, Lindt Chocolate, and Bob’s Discount Furniture.

He made another drastic career switch three years ago when he shut down his business to devote his time to writing a book about Winston Churchill and a  little-known event from World War II. In late 2022, he took a slight detour to publish a book titled “Everybody Knows a Salesman Can’t Write a Book.”