Bill Stealey

John Wilbur "Wild Bill" Stealey Sr. (born 1947) is a former United States Air Force officer and the current CEO of iEntertainment Network.

Colonel Stealey is a graduate United States Air Force Academy in Aeronautical Engineering (1970) and of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters of Business Administration. He also earned one of only 100 four year national ROTC scholarships as a high school senior and attended Pennsylvania Military College for one year before attending the United States Air Force Academy. Stealey went to Undergraduate Pilot Training in Lubbock, Texas, and after graduating was asked to stay as an Instructor Pilot in T-37 aircraft. After his IP duties where done, and having two children in Lubbock, Stealey move to C-5A piloting at Dover AFB, Delaware.

From Dover, Stealey decided to leave the Air Force to go to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to receive his MBA. After graduation from Wharton, where he was also flying O-2A and A-37B Aircraft for the PA ANG, as a forward air controller, Stealey took a consulting job in NYC with Cresap, McCormich, and Paget consulting firm. Stealey also worked for US Lines in NYC as Executive Assistant the Chairman and later CFO of the East Coast Division of US Lines. Stealey left US Lines to join McKinsey and Co. in their NYC offices.

Stealey left NY to take a job with General Instrument as their Director of Strategic Planning for their Systems and Service Division in Hunt Valley MD. There he met Sid Meier and Co-Founded his first game company, MicroProse Software. As CEO he grew the company to over $43 million in annual sales, taking MicroProse Software public in 1991, and selling to a Kleiner Perkins company, Spectrum Holybyte.

Stealey also served on the Board of the Association of Graduates of the United States Air Force Academy for four years as the Treasurer of the organization. He is listed as a notable graduate of USAFA.

Stealey started game software company, Interactive Magic in 1995, took it public in 1998, and sold to a private equity firm in 1999. After that firm was not able to find another buyer, and let the company go into debt and almost close, Stealey and a few Young President Organization friends and investors took control of the company and renamed it iEntertainment Network.

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