William (Bill) J. Clark
President and Executive Director
Philabundance, Philadelphia, PA

As President and Executive Director of Philabundance, Bill Clark oversees the region’s largest hunger relief organization. Previously, he spent 30 years in the food industry, serving as senior product manager at Swift & Company, a director of marketing for Land O’ Frost, Inc, and a consulting partner at Resources, Inc., a Chicago-based marketing and new product firm where he implemented corporate branding initiatives for several clients including Beatrice Foods, Keebler, and ConAgra Foods.

In 1984, Clark founded his own food manufacturing company, W. J. Clark and Co. that produced and marketed five lines of specialty foods. In 1996, he sold his interests to a large national food company. He then worked as an independent consultant to a number of marketing firms until becoming the assistant to the president of W. Atlee Burpee Company, the country’s oldest seed and garden supply company.

In 2005, Clark oversaw the integration of Philabundance and the Greater Philadelphia Food Bank, which positioned Philabundance as the largest hunger relief organization in the region. That same year, he directed the organization’s response to the hurricane disaster that struck the Gulf Coast, delivered approximately half a million pounds of food to the affected areas within a month of the disaster. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance with a BS degree in Economics.

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