Biography
"We are what we repeatedly do." - Aristotle
"Bill" to his friends, William P. Bro is the great-grandson of W. M. Welch, who founded Welch Manufacturing Company, a global supplier of scientific apparatus and laboratory supplies in the late 19th Century. Bill is manager of Eleemosynary Services LLC, a family-owned company that provides consulting services to charities and is also engaged in book publishing. Another family-run company, Aerodrome Services, offers broadcast engineering services, telecommunications solutions for commercial and residential customers, an array of aviation services, including visual flight training aids, AM/FM aerial transmitter site surveys, and air traffic reports for radio stations. A third family company, The High Point Group, Inc., is developing a virtual museum that is a tribute to the W. M. Welch Manufacturing Company.
Bill is a university honors graduate with a B.S. in Business Management and he holds a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association, Cherokee Pilots Association, Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association, Association Forum of Chicagoland, and has served in a number of volunteer positions, including as a member of the National Cancer Institute Director’s Consumer Liaison Group, Friends of Cancer Research, Kidney Cancer Task Force, Cancer Leadership Council, Cancer Biomarkers Consortium, The Cancer Genome Atlas, and National Coalition for Cancer Research, among others. Bill is a past chairman of the Kidney Cancer Association and has served as a consultant and its CEO since 2002 when, upon retirement from broadcast station ownership and management, he volunteered to fill a leadership void at the charity